They wanted to say to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth.

A hundred billion bucks a guy is a high ransom payment.

That, sadly, lamentably, is not a new statement coming out of Iran.

Because of killing of gay people left and right, you are kind of an unstable personality.

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sasse). The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

I urge my colleagues to support my VA spending bill to final passage. It is a very bipartisan bill. I also would like to thank my ranking Democratic member, Senator Jon Tester of Montana, who has been a great partner. We have worked with…

I know of no further debate on these amendments. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate? If not, the question occurs on agreeing to the amendments en bloc. The amendments (Nos. 3914, 3938, 3948, 3954, and 3971) were agreed to en…

I ask unanimous consent that the following amendments be called up en bloc and reported by number: No. 3914, by Senator Tester; No. 3938, by me; No. 3948, by Senator Heller; No. 3954, by Senator Heitkamp; and No. 3971, by Senator Bennet…

we are bringing up the MILCON-VA appropriations bill today, and I urge its adoption. This year the MILCON-VA bill was the first appropriations bill. We marked up 5 weeks earlier than last year, and the bill is on the floor 6 months earlier…

I wanted to reassure the Senate and thank Chairman Alexander for making sure that this legislation has $285 million in it for advanced computing. It also includes the Kirk language to ensure that the United States is home to the No. 1…

When you talk about strategic risk, that is a very bureaucratic way of saying that this is what you would stick our soldier to live in.

Let me just follow up with my top priority, making sure that we could withstand or repel a missile attack by Iran against the United States.

Missile defense is one of my greatest priorities as chair of this subcommittee.

I can say that not only because it's true but there are no other members here representing the other three who could contradict that statement.

on March 15, we commemorated the 25th anniversary of the reestablishment of diplomatic ties between the United States and the Republic of Albania. Over 25 years ago, Albania emerged from nearly five decades of isolation and Communist rule…

The answer to every VA problem is not 'give us more money, give us more flexibility.' We need to fix the VA's corrupt culture and all too often poor performance.

I requested all documents the VA had about wait time abuse at Hines VA.

This is the only subcommittee that has joint jurisdiction of both DOD and VA, so we are the only guys that can really ride herd on something like bringing you two together, DOD and VA together.

I would say you could expect some further definition from this committee on that point, that we need to move forward on this point to make sure there is no net burden on the soldier and sailor when they come out of the Service.

Let me get you on the record about hepatitis C.

Just see if it is part of socialized medicine to get the patient quickly out the door to give them Xanax and Ambien.

But, David, my staff has been trying for weeks to find out who was the person responsible for the Veterans Crisis Line.

Thank you. I want to go with a full blown Apple app and make sure all these 19 year olds when they come out, they just hit the application and can see a full blown record and can contact VA if they see errors.

Most people would think that a medical record includes x-rays that they had taken when they were in the service.

The rock candy mountain here is to make sure the system is covering so many patients that the industry follows.