I believe this IR has regulatory effect and that this effect may serve to dis-incentivize the very practices we are hoping to promote.

This is one of our greatest opportunities to make lasting improvement.

I stand with you to get it done.

This is a bipartisan effort, but--and the chairman and I are friends and he knows me well enough, he knows that nobody does passive-aggressiveness like Minnesotans.

This nation is committed to getting this right.

I am concerned with the process by which this interpretive rule was effectively finalized.

What we do possibly within the next weeks and months will have decades long implications.

If we miss this opportunity or don't cease to rise to the occasion, then shame on all of us.

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.

We all know there should be one record. We all know that DoD and VA should work together.

It's incredibly disappointing to hear how you've been handled. It's beyond the pale that some of this would go on.