"A full-year continuing resolution (CR) would be a fiscally unsound way of funding the Department, the Navy, the Navy Reserve and government as a whole."
"this bill does not work unless CFIUS can do the enforcement. You have to have an enforcement tool."
"I think there are 30 bills out there to do this and this is just one of many--to regulate who is buying land"
"Our next step cannot be to immediately renege on that pledge."
"Congress needs to take its cues from the veterans."
"the Speaker said did not cut benefits, in fact, called the President a liar, when, in fact, the President was the one who was telling the truth."
"I believe what he says when he says that we want to make sure that veterans' benefits and health care and programs are funded."
"I am also concerned with House efforts to rescind $1.8 billion we already appropriated for delivering veterans' health care."
"We send folks off to war, we put it on the credit card. They come back and we make excuses not to fund their benefits."
"Delivering more money for veterans is not the solution, but delivering better outcomes is."
"We make a promise to those who serve our country to deliver for them, and if the VA is going to make good on that promise, they have to have resources to do so."