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

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you all for being here today.

Mr. Speaker, 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…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the House bring up the Senate amendment to H.J. Res. 59, to open the American people's government and go to conference on a budget so that we end this Republican government shutdown. The SPEAKER…

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

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.

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.

Not supporting veterans isn't one of them.

I am disappointed, to say the least.

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.

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