Jerry Moran

I authored legislation that ultimately created a pilot program... that says if you live long distances from a VA hospital outpatient facility, you can access that at home

Suggests that they wanted failure.

I never got an answer.

What seems to me to be different today, Mr. Secretary, and it has occurred over time, is the recognition that the VA, in a sense, was just shrugging its shoulders, no real attention to problems.

I am very concerned that this conference committee will end up taking a step backward for veterans' health care in this country.

It seems to me that we were right, there is a culture and a systemic problem if the Secretary cannot trust the people that he or she must deal with.

I think we should be able to expect an honest, fair, and timely response, and it has not occurred.

I look forward to working with you during your time at the Department of Veterans Affairs to see that the results are things that we all can be proud of.

Veterans deserve better. They have earned the health care.

My ability to care for the veterans back home in Kansas is handicapped by the sense that I have had that the Department of Veterans Affairs does not trust us

I have never asked for a Cabinet Secretary's resignation. This is the first time I have ever done that in my time in Congress.

I thought a change in leadership at the Department of Veterans Affairs was required.

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I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

As a sponsor of the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014, I am pleased the Senate has risen to the occasion and come together on this critical legislation. Although I was still in Kansas…

Absolutely. And the executives, the folks who have been involved with the Navy who showed me this map of our naval shipyards, within my son's lifetime are going to be under water. They did say, well, if it is any consolation, Florida is in…

Absolutely. We just were shown a map by naval executives, and I hesitate to say this because it is so scary, but the reality is that the entire Naval Shipyard and the Norfolk shipbuilding base which builds our nuclear carriers within a…

Thank you. I certainly appreciate the remarks of my colleague, the Senator from Texas, in regard to honoring those who served our country so nobly and so courageously 70 years ago, as we recognize this weekend the anniversary of that…

The person that my good friend refers to is not a Guantanamo detainee. The reality is that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is not representative of the vast majority of Gitmo detainees who were brought 13, 14 years ago. There are a handful several…

I have an amendment at the desk. The amendment would strike both section 528 and 529 so I ask that they would be considered en bloc. The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the consideration of the amendment at this point? There was no…

There has been a lot of conversation among many of us here in the Senate and last week in the Veterans' Affairs Committee about the circumstances we find ourselves in at the Department of Veterans Affairs and its ability to provide the…

I am pursuing legislation to change that so we can see what that report says.

They earned and deserve that service, and in my view, the Department of Veterans Affairs is not providing those worthy veterans what we have committed to do.

I do not see a review that lasts 2 weeks using 220 employees and looking at 153 medical facilities as capable of providing that information.

The sad story is many veterans across the country... have lost hope in the Department of Veterans Affairs and just believe things are never going to get any better.