"I met yesterday with Senator Murkowski. She showed me a map of Alaska and how much is controlled by you two."
"The VA has done something which I admire. They have given a spreadsheet which we can all look at that has these statistics per clinic."
"And I encourage my colleagues, because Dr. Clancy was nice enough, I asked her for the granular data..."
"Any comments on that? We're leaving $4 billion on the table. Can we get some of that money to the taxpayer?"
"Let me ask one more thing quickly. You have a supplemental appropriations, a second bite, if you will, which is $1.3 billion."
"I would again push that if HIV/AIDS, as you have mentioned, is substantially addressed... we should start shifting more aggressively resources from that which has been addressed to that which we are c..."
"I am told that recently you stated that states in the Atlantic will have a chance to pull themselves out of the running for possible Federal approval of offshore drilling."
"States clearly have a role in decisions about whether and/or how to develop Federal energy resources off their shores."
"If you are going to say listen, the states have the option to pull themselves out and we recognize they have an interest, and we are going to honor that they have an interest, et cetera, than in the c..."
"Our endpoint is not preservation of VA. Our endpoint is preservation of the veteran, and so we need to look for that best model."
"Clearly, patient access to care is important."