Jackie Walorski

This legislation ensures these veterans receive the best equipment by requiring vendors... to meet minimum certification or accreditation standards.

I want to take a second and I think many of us involved on this Committee have worked for years long and hard to take the horrific thing that happened to you and the kind of environment that you had to tolerate as a member of the Armed…

We are working every day to make sure that we together are going to be able to say that we eradicated this and it is a safe place to serve.

I appreciate being given the opportunity to discuss H.R. 3471, the Veterans Mobility Safety Act of 2015.

I guess my final question is, in that demoralizing environment, how in the world will the VA ever hire the doctors, the nursing professionals, and the administrators to run an agency...

Every day it seems like there's something new. We've heard project's over budget, behind schedule, whistleblowers retaliation, and now this issue of collusion among officials to line their pockets with fewer responsibilities.

The EPA is at it again. A few weeks ago, this runaway agency released its most expensive regulation in history. The new ozone rule joins a number of other costly, expansive, and crippling regulations put out by the EPA during the Obama…

I thank the distinguished gentlewoman and my friend from Missouri, Vicky Hartzler. The NDAA, as we have heard tonight, is the largest single authorization bill that Congress considers and one of this body's most significant pieces of…

I think there has to be real change and that there has to be a structural change to be able to enhance those interagency cooperations.

Are there any things that you have heard that have come out of any of those meetings where Congress can be a partner in accomplishing that goal?

Are you looking at solutions from the private sector organizations to help streamline that process?

I have been working on legislation that I introduced that would create a uniform framework for enabling the presence of medical vendors.

I look at this as a huge crisis in confidence yet again.

the discrepancy that is happening in this country between these high level VA executives and the veterans that are in the districts that we all sit in here and represent today, to me it is reprehensible.

my office number still rings every single day in Indiana's Second District with veterans that need help.

when there is less presence, there is less influence, there is greater risk.

I think that we need to remind the American people that over the last 3 years, certainly in my short tenure in Congress, there really has been a vacuum of foreign policy.

I think it is not we are sending policy. There is an administration sending a policy that many times can't be understood.

I think it is very, very dangerous, and I think the American people understand that.

On rollcall No. 534 I was not present due to a death in the family. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' ____________________

On rollcall No. 535, I was not present due to a death in the family. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' personal explanation

You think 1 hour of notice is legitimate for two organizations and militaries that are talking?

I have reason to be very skeptical about them complying with what they agreed to comply with.

And would this not be a major alarm? This is alarming to me that he just talked to the President yesterday...

Would there not be an element of trust that would have to prevail here when we just literally saw what happened this morning...