Thank you for the opportunity to address the Subcommittee this afternoon.

The VFW supports Representative John Delaney's bill calling for the reauthorization of the VA Secretary's Advisory Committee on Education.

Provide for a two-year extension of the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education.

the cost of this inaction is not nothing, and we are seeing that in the results in the economy.

We are going to fight for you, and we are not going to blame you for anybody else's mistake.

I encourage you to resist the temptation to take those more ideological, political positions.

But perfect is the enemy of the good, and we had to save the financial system because the consequences, in my judgment, would have been worse.

I actually think the FDIC did a very nice job through the financial crisis.

I just think this notion of thinking about that the country has too many young and poorly educated people, and they can't compete for decent jobs with good standards of living, I'm just still not sure how relevant that is to the…

I worry deeply actually that one of the great things that has happened in the world is the rest of the world has become much more like the United States.

Senator Klobuchar I think spoke very eloquently about how important immigrants have been to our economy.