"This Congress has seen in the past significant improvements on our funding for health services."
"Despite the additional money, we still cannot attract and retain the necessary professionals to provide the services."
"One of the concerns I always have about the provision of health care services for our veterans is the geographic disparity."
"I think it is, it is not only disappointing to me, to the professionals who want to provide the services, but more important it means that there are veterans who could be served that are not because o..."
"I would welcome anyone on the Committee who would like to work with me to see if we cannot get the VA to move in a more expeditious manner."
"What we are asking in this request is for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to receive some funding to redress some of those rehabilitation areas within that region."
"That is crazy if you have got that much land set aside, and you can not do anything with it."
"However, if all the commodity programs were gone tomorrow, we could probably make it as long as we have crop insurance."
"I am embarrassed to again raise this topic because it should have been solved years ago."
"This program is of significant importance to the farmers I represent in Kansas and farmers across the nation."
"But if we had to give up something, make sure we still have crop insurance because our risks are so great."