Is it naive of me to think that after 25 years of that and the biennial reviews by the National Academy of Sciences, a meta-analysis of all the research that was out there, did we just do a wonderful job of picking the last two things they…

But I would suggest to my colleagues here, why were we so willing to give up to the executive branch the authority to make these decisions, and why we gave away our power with the expiration of the Agent Orange Act.

Last summer when the Agent Orange Act was coming to expire, 53 of us co-sponsored that and it ended with a whimper without even a floor vote.

I think our issue, especially with these toxic wound exposures in battle, it differs from cancer...

My concern is, though, when do we make a decision that we've tried hard enough or that we've reached that point.

I think it's important information with the hearing that's going to be next week up in New Hampshire with Ms. Kuster.

I think it is probably happening. But there is a disconnect between that, the private sector pain management experts.

I know in this case that the commitment from the VA is there to get this on the forefront.

We treat addiction after it is there, good luck.

I cannot tell you that I feel like it is necessarily any better on the rule of law on human rights, stretching from religious freedoms to reproductive freedoms to many of the other issues that we have discussed in here.

I think it is important to--as this Commission, maybe one of the last bastions in the Congress of trying to stand on human rights as a whole and talk about the importance of our policies.