"If confirmed, would you commit to preserving or expanding the access to care that veterans have currently?"
"I have serious concerns with proposals out of the House to gut the fund."
"I am happy when I hear compliments that good things are happening. It is not that I am looking for an answer that says they are failing."
"I understand that the VA plans to track expenditures from the Toxic Exposure Fund to ensure they are justified."
"The intent of the supplemental was to support urgent time-limited needs, kind of one time or one period of time circumstances, not to create an artificial increasing of the VA's budget."
"One of the things I think about the PACT Act that I appreciate is its attempt at trying to provide some fairness to veterans."
"I think this is really important. It is going to be a problem for us, time and time again, if we do not get this scoring issue with CBO resolved."
"I am committed to protecting and prioritizing support for veterans in the ongoing budget talks."
"So the problems, or the lack of accounting of the money from COVID, which you are now trying to address by bringing it to the Central Office, that is not anything that would suggest the same problem w..."
"We need to find a way that gets us in a position in which every other bill is not handicapped by the score of CBO creating the necessary PAYGO rules to be complied with."
"China continues to close the gap with the United States."