It is a singular honor to serve on this committee, and to testify in front of you is humbling and an honor.

Our goal, and this is very, simple: uphold the promise we made to our veterans by ending the backlog and getting the benefits they earned.

Congress needs to do more to bolster VA's current efforts to modernize its operations and promote further improvements.

This issue of the claims backlog, it is corrosive, it is wrong. It wears at the soul of this country.

This piece of legislation, it is very simple. Our measure would simply allow local doctors to conduct disability medical examinations for veterans.

He doesn't believe there are three fire departments in America that could respond in an urban area to a Casselton type of incident.

We want to keep our citizens safe and we want to move important products, and we have to figure out strike that balance.

They referred to these as incidents—not accidents. And it kind of changes the point of view on how we're getting after it.

The problem we have, sometimes, though is the city of La Crescent was there also, and they said I happen to know Winona's got a better grant writer, because we're smaller.

I have worked across the aisle, with my colleague Michael Grimm, to introduce the Federal Adjustment in Reporting Student Credit Act.

To me, however, college affordability is probably one of the top priorities we need to be focused on.