As a father and a grandfather, I know the love that a family feels for their children, and it doesn't begin on the day they are born. It starts when you first learn that the prayers have been answered and that a new life is being brought…

I thank the gentleman from Florida for coming to speak. Madam Speaker, tomorrow, we are going to welcome to this city once again the people who believe in the sanctity of life. They will walk down Pennsylvania Avenue from The Mall and they…

I thank the gentlewoman from Missouri for yielding and for putting this on tonight. Mr. Speaker, if you have listened to this debate tonight, the colleagues that I serve with are explaining that there truly is a crisis. Unfortunately…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 235, nays 161, answered ``present'' 2, not voting 35, as…

I want to congratulate our esteemed Chairman, Dr. Roe, to the DAMA Subcommittee and Chairman, Mr. Bost...

I want to end my remarks with two points. First, with optimism. With optimism about the possibilities that appeals reform hold...

It has been one of the greatest honors that you could ever imagine being Chairman of this Committee.

this GI thing is big, okay. And we want to know, and I think the people deserve to know.

Well, I want to thank the panel for being with us. We did two rounds of questioning, and we have another panel that is coming forward.

I also want to say a special thank you to the staff. The staff has been wonderful, both Republican and Democrat staff, hardworking.

Ensuring those who have selflessly raised their right hand in defense of this nation receive the benefits and care they deserve is a priority of The American Legion.

this Committee, bipartisan, is going to be the best partners that we can be with you, because we want results just like you do.

As you go back and try to figure out these errors and then live up to the commitment to make someone whole, is it going to have to be done through the tech people that you were working with originally?

Thank you for the opportunity to share the American Legion's position on these vital issues impacting the men and women who have selflessly defended this Nation.

Unfortunately, according to the IG, it looks like the VA does not take these commonsense steps when it develops new programs.

And I want to thank the Chairman and the excellent staff on this Committee for their hard work and their bipartisan cooperation to make sure that we are all, to the best possible, rowing in the same direction and doing our level best every…

your announcement of making it very clear to us and to the public that it is to make all of our GI veterans whole and/or also then not to--and hold them harmless for those who may have been overpaid is a good start for this hearing.

And know this, as a marine--and I will continue to serve in Congress. I will still continue to focus on our veterans' issues.

I want to know from this Committee's standpoint that we have the commitment that that is going to be the case where your staff--your group as a whole is going to be aggressive to make sure that anyone that is owed is found out that they…

So, Mr. Christy or Ms. Devlin, either one, so what are we -- what are our plans in the future to make sure that we actually have penalties and have those things in place to make sure they are doing the timeliness and all of the things that…

I am concerned the VA chose to expand a potentially $6.8 billion program without having the necessary controls in place to hold the vendors accountable.

Just real quick, because I am going to run out of time, I am afraid, but what are you doing as far as, from here on out, to do the proper audits, to make sure that we know and you know that the contractor is doing everything they are…

And the problem we all have, as Members of Congress, is the fact that we go back and talk to our constituents, and then we have to answer to them, for where our levels of bureaucracy have failed, where they should have never been put in…

I want to thank everyone for being here, both the witnesses and the Members.

With that, thank you to the witnesses for participating in the hearing, and with that, I will also yield to the Ranking Member for any closing statement that she might have.