I respectfully request that you withdraw the interpretive rule.
I believe this IR has regulatory effect and that this effect may serve to dis-incentivize the very practices we are hopi...
I am concerned with the process by which this interpretive rule was effectively finalized.
I think all of us where you get it, we are trying to separate adequate resources from effective use of those resources.
This is a pivotal moment that we are at, pivotal.
This is a bipartisan effort, but--and the chairman and I are friends and he knows me well enough, he knows that nobody d...
I stand with you to get it done.
The core mission of the VA needs to remain intact. We need to strengthen it.
If we miss this opportunity or don't cease to rise to the occasion, then shame on all of us.
What we do possibly within the next weeks and months will have decades long implications.
This is one of our greatest opportunities to make lasting improvement.