"I also want to highlight a piece of legislation I recently joined Congresswoman Lois Frankel and Congressman Gus Bilirakis in introducing the Veteran Education Empowerment Act."
"I want to take a moment to commend my colleagues who introduced and supported the Transparency Act."
"the construction of a VA hospital is in my district. It is hundreds of millions of dollars over budget, years behind schedule."
"No soldier should ever have to fight abroad and return home, only to find that it is no longer there."
"And what it says to me and what it says to the veterans of this country is nothing has really changed, nothing has really changed in the Department of Veterans Affairs."
"I am pleased that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was able to pass a clean one-year extension through the Senate..."
"It is vitally important that we pass H.R. 189."
"I believe DoD is missing the mark by not making the education track mandatory for those servicemembers who are planning to use their G.I. Bill benefits upon transition."
"I will yield."
"How do we straighten it out? How do we lighten it up? These people have served us."
"It is long past time for these projects, marred by bureaucratic ineptitude, to be complete."