"I hope that my colleagues, both sides of the Congress, will allow science and science alone to drive our policies in the future."
"We must be good stewards of these national treasures so that they are preserved for the enjoyment of future generations."
"Most projections now show the sea rising by at least 1 meter by the year 2100. This is the level currently estimated by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program."
"I would love to see this Committee and the VA have a roundtable on mental health issues and mental health services."
"Providing health care to veterans and their families would be one step toward meeting, I think, our moral obligation to those who we put at risk."
"Clearly, the studies that have been done up until this time didn't take into account benzene, or to the same level of concern, TCE and/or PCE."
"We have an obligation to figure out how much of these dangerous chemicals veterans and their families were exposed to and what impact these exposures might have had on their health."
"We owe them much more than that."
"I personally believe we have to focus on prevention to stop the cycle before it begins."
"The proposed build-out of the HUD-VASH program to a level of 60,000 vouchers by FY 2014 would effectively mean the end of chronic homelessness among veterans in this Nation."
"This measure [S. 1160] was first introduced by then-Senator Barack Obama in the 110th Congress."