Mark Kirk

That sounds particularly heinous.

It would seem to me, Ms. Halliday, that your predecessor made a mistake by issuing this subpoena. I would ask you to withdraw it.

I would expect that if you gave the information to the Inspector General's office, those 800 employees would receive severe retaliation.

If the situation is as Ms. Halliday says, that the confidentiality is at the cornerstone of the Inspector General's work, then they have no interest in getting the identities of the people who complained at POGO.

Nobody was held accountable for the allegations that were substantiated except people were told not to do that again.

Is that immediate grounds for malpractice?

The truth about corruption in VA hospitals was not easy to reveal for Katherine Mitchell, Germaine Carno, and Dr. Lisa Nee.

The heroes that we call our veterans, and the honorable people who strive on their behalf, deserve so much better treatment.

It seems that the disclosure of a confidential source is routine at the Inspector General's office.

I was struck by you comparing civilian medicine to VA medicine.

Thank you for this unique opportunity to address ongoing issues regarding retaliation against truth-tellers in the Veterans Affairs system.

I urge the administration to act quickly to fill this vacancy and to appoint a well-qualified, independent Inspector General.

The American people rightly expect our veterans to receive the best healthcare in America, but the system that is designed to provide it is failing.

The American public deserves the truth, and when they find out the truth, they will not allow our veterans to be mistreated and marginalized.

It shows how widespread this corruption is.

Does the Chinese intelligence service have it before you do, now that we have seen on the order of 10 or 200 million people compromised by OPM?

I would assume that this scandal is a bit like the NSA scandal, that you have vacuumed up too much, that it gives you too much power.

I would say that is a little--since this building was way OK with the Office of Thrift Supervision, how come you need $216 million in upgrades of what they already had?

I would gently suggest that you probably ought to scrub the picture you are not collecting intel on members of the Supreme Court or the Congress.

I think any first-year law student would pick this up, a separation-of-powers argument. It gives you the ability to abuse this power and intimidate the Court.

Let me just follow up. How does a two-story waterfall help you do your job?

I think that would reassure us all----make sure that the Chinese do not have it before you do.

I will be considering legislation to provide notice and comment provisions with regard to insurance matters in the FSB.

I urge this Chamber to reject the motion to table my amendment, which put forward reforms to the Export-Import Bank. I would say to Members that this is going to be a key scored vote by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National…

I want to thank Heidi Heitkamp for her great bipartisan work on this coming amendment.