Improving access requires a multi-prong approach as the hearing title states, non-VA care must be part of an integrated solution.

I can't tell you how grateful I am for this day to have arrived, and unfortunately it took disastrous findings within the VA to get to this point and it is a step in the right direction.

We are here to work for the veteran, brave men and women who have sacrificed so much for our freedom, men and women who right now deserve better.

under the Affordable Care Act, 3,000 Mainers were denied access because our government refused to extend Medicaid to the 70,000 Mainers of which 3,000 were veterans.

I am proud that this committee has addressed these problems in a bipartisan fashion and I am hopeful that the spirit continues as we roll up our sleeves and begin the hard work of finding solutions.

The only way we are going to truly address the litany of problems is to look at the fundamental change within the department.

If they can have the input of how things can be better, you have got to go that route.

All a VA employee needs to do without a doubt is they have to be reminded that they are working for the veteran, not a bureaucracy.

Project ARCH is in Maine.

I am proud that this Committee has addressed these problems in a bipartisan fashion.

The time is right to leverage outside expertise. There is no monopoly on good ideas.

The VISN structure has been under scrutiny for a few years now and I understand that VHA has reduced the number of headquarters staff through a realignment effort.

The problem I have found within the VA system is you had too many people who don't know what they don't know because they have always been in that system.

I believe it is essential that we look at structural and cultural root causes that got us in this position in the first place.

Patients need to have choice because for me, my level of success and how well I was doing is by how many wanted to see me when they know they have a choice.

Ronald Reagan once said if you have a message that is important, tell it over and over again.

At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Titus).

I have a couple of speakers, but they are not here so I will close. Once again, Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 4810, the Veteran Access to Care Act of 2014. I want to thank the chairman once again for bringing this bill…

At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas, Dr. Cuellar.

At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Barrow), a former member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee.

Unfortunately, what had been best for the Park Service and the community in 1950 might not be best for the town in 2014.

The Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller and I rise to ask that the House pause to remember the courageous sacrifice that our men and women went through when they lost their lives on the beaches of Normandy, France, during the…

I am joined here today by my colleagues from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the French Caucus so that we may pay tribute to the bravery and sacrifice of the American soldiers who landed at Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. This…

We expect accountability and full accountability for every failure that has harmed a veteran and for every individual who perpetrated such harm.

We all share the same goal of ensuring that our veterans receive the highest quality care and treatment possible; that they deserve nothing less.