I am deeply concerned with Dr. Petzel's comments after this had already been brought to notice.

This is not a kerfuffle. This is an incredible breach of trust.

I think your passion for this, and you are absolutely right, I would be furious with Sonny Montgomery.

I think Secretary Shinseki needs to resign. He has failed in his leadership completely.

I would like to thank the chairman and the ranking member of the full committee and the subcommittees for doing exceptional work, for putting our veterans first, for bringing a package of commonsense legislation to honor our Nation's…

We are wasting valuable time and resources by a self-inflicted wound that should be going toward our veterans.

I trust that you--and the thing I would say about this is, the comment that we shouldn't be talking about furloughs or whatever, the VA is an organization of people.

The fix to this, and the way to remove veterans, and we anticipated 3 years ago when we did advance appropriations, remove veterans from this fight.

I think you are wrong on some of the policies. This is the place to debate that; not a Martial Law rule that goes to the floor with no amendments.

We may have differences on policy and ideology. We certainly don't have differences on love of this country.

I am disappointed, to say the least.

Not supporting veterans isn't one of them.