Jon Tester: “I want to echo your statements right now, Mr. Chairman, that is, you are right, the banging on that door is going to get…”

There's plenty of examples of it. The Mission Act is a prime example. The fastest growing part of the V.A. budget. Why? Because we privatizing V.A. health care and its costing us more money, not less.

If that was possible it would already be done.

I would say two things. Number one this administration has totally blown the opportunity to make government more efficient by going in with a -- with a -- with a meat cleaver and just hack up agencies.

During my last two races the democratic Party was poison in my attempts to get re-elected.