"I think that the best judge of this is actually the customer, is the American citizens."
"It is indeed ironic that we have a member of a body that has 6 percent approval criticizing the employees who have 84 percent approval rating in the eyes of our constituents."
"We do not have control of our border."
"It is a problem of a willingness here in Congress to grapple with that problem."
"Thank you for your courage and your willingness to come forward and try to make sure that this does not happen again."
"I cannot not criticize when we have a 90 percent failure rate, so that has got to change."
"We want our screeners to do a damn good job. So the priority has to be safety and security."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank you for holding this hearing to examine the efforts undertaken by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide service dogs to veterans of the U.S. arme..."
"I am proud to cosponsor two pieces of bipartisan legislation that have been introduced in Congress to facilitate the use of service dogs to assist our veterans."
"Chairman DeSantis, my colleague on this committee, has introduced H.R. 4764, a bill to require the VA to commence the service dog pilot program right away that is specific to post-9/11 veterans with s..."
"Also, Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts has also reintroduced legislation to establish a grant program to assist nonprofit organizations in developing and establishing service dog programs ..."
"If 68,000 have opiod use disorders and that is 13 percent of the veterans on opioids, that is a huge, huge problem."