Jon Tester actually said...

"the person who is being the bad guy--who is doing the work that nobody wants to do, pointing out an inadequacy in the system--needs to be guarded against so that retribution does not take place."

"Do you see that the VA is--and by the way I agree with what Senator Burr said, one case is bad--but I want to know where the VA ranks in relationship to the private sector as far as occurrences of scr..."

"If there is another round, I will wait. If not, I can keep going."

"I think you can look at peer review as a punitive mechanism. I think we try to approach it from a viewpoint that is a learning mechanism."