Daniel Akaka actually said...

"The Veterans' Health Care Budget Reform Act would ensure that the goals of the partnership--sufficient, timely and predictable funding--are met."

"I have said this time and time again: veterans' benefits and services are a cost of war and must be understood and funded as such."

"Could a public works program like that be useful in the economic situation we find the country in today?"

"The postal reform bill we passed in 2006 intended to make the Postal Service operate even more like a business, as we have said, and be independent of any Federal funding."