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Johnny Isakson was a prominent Republican politician from Georgia who served as a United States Senator from 2005 until his resignation in 2019. Prior to his Senate tenure, he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005. Throughout his political career, Isakson was known for his focus on issues such as education, healthcare, and veterans' affairs, often advocating for policies that supported these areas. He played a significant role in various legislative efforts, including those related to nuclear energy and environmental regulations.
As my colleague Senator Menendez indicated, the intent of the language in the FDA Reauthorization Act is this: so long as the submission process for a given product is begun by the sponsor on or before September 30, 2017, the product would…
I know when it is a good time for me to shut up. When the minority leader has come to the floor to endorse the guy I am talking about, the last thing I want to do is wear it out. Let me end my remarks by saying that Christopher Wray is the…
I am a big supporter of Ms. Cantwell's program. It is a good program. It has passed the test of time.
There are two tax credit programs created by Congress. One is the Conservation Easement Tax Credit program and the other is the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program.
It is the only way we are going to have money flowing into two things that meet the test of what we want to give a tax credit for.
We want to make sure the integrity of the programs that raise the money by the syndicators is intact.
Were the tax credit program not available, would you have had that big an investment?
It has a multiplier effect in terms of what it does for generating more moderate-income housing.
I hope you are able to make that happen, because it would be an important function for them to do.
The most important thing we can hear in this Committee is that we improve our appeals process and get that problem straightened out.
Well, thank you very much, Ms. Mason, and thank you very much on your openness on the suicide experience with your father and your brother.
Probably one of the greatest innovations over the last 10 years, in terms of services for our veterans, because of the nature of service today and the type of warfare that they are more often engaged in, have been the development of…
If Jon does his job and I do mine, and we have a majority of the Committee present for a quorum on the floor of the Senate tomorrow, on the first vote, then we will hold your markup tomorrow.
If we have a crisis it needs to be a real crisis, not one manufactured for the purpose of making us think we had to act quickly.
We have had manufactured crises of running out of money when, in fact, we really were not running out of money at all.
I definitely think we ought to listen to the VSOs. I hope they will listen closely to all of us, too.
I stand ready, and I bet--I did not ask Jon about this but I bet you Jon does too.
If we can do that together, elected officials, senior appointed members of the VA, and rank and file employees, then we will change the culture of the Veterans Administration, in my judgment, all for the better.
The success of the failure of the accountability program lies squarely on your shoulders.
Is it not true that every time we have ever had anything like Choice, which was, of course, a huge challenge that we all met, that we used it as a force multiplier for benefits to the veterans, not a replacement for the VA services…
It is important that we listen to them but it is also important for them to listen to us.
I think the most important thing, if we make a change like that, is how you convert the taxpayer from the old system to the new one.
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