Senator Hirono's bill extends this protection to VA employees, who are 'Title 38 employees' and don't have the same level of protection as 'Title 5' Federal employees.

Thanks to the leadership of Senators Tester and Boozman on the Deborah Sampson Act, we have an opportunity to take this head-on.

I urge you to consider carefully the message that Congress supporting a more inclusive motto sends to the women veterans back in your home States.

Making sure that there are no financial barriers to care is important to our most medically compromised veterans.

I am pleased to submit this testimony in strong support of S. 324, the State Veterans Home Adult Day Health Care Improvement Act of 2017.

North Korea is committed to developing long-range missile technology.

I think those two questions are completely connected to each other in the sense that our effectiveness in being able to get China to do more, or to signal to North Korea the credibility of our deterrence, or any of our policies, greatly…

I think it was important for Secretary Mattis to visit Japan and South Korea as his first official secretarial duties.

But our credibility is our currency. So the minute you undertake actions that undermine credibility, that has a profound effect in the region in terms of how we are perceived.

So there could not be a single, more important signal of United States staying power in the region than something like APSI that is investing in the things that constitute the United States security presence in Asia.

Well, give me a number.