Richard Burr

We must be good stewards of these national treasures so that they are preserved for the enjoyment of future generations.

I hope that my colleagues, both sides of the Congress, will allow science and science alone to drive our policies in the future.

I would hesitate to say that the most critical needs aren't addressed.

We urge this distinguished committee to adopt the language in H.R. 2735 on this issue, and authorize a change in the law.

The only other great hope we have is that the Senate will rise up in unity to support the Homes for Heroes Act of 2009.

This measure [S. 1160] was first introduced by then-Senator Barack Obama in the 110th Congress.

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.

I would love to see this Committee and the VA have a roundtable on mental health issues and mental health services.

I personally believe we have to focus on prevention to stop the cycle before it begins.

We owe them much more than that.

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.

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.

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.

I think the expansion of Medicaid is a flunk to what the President suggested, and that's quality and access have to be linked.

Everyone would pay more for health insurance because the mandated plan that one would purchase under the health exchange is so large that it would be very, very expensive.

Did your staff find specific cases where people had been denied access because of domestic violence?

Unfortunately, the bills in front of Congress right now, the House Democrats' bill, the two bills in the Senate, are anti-woman, anti-man, and anti-American.

I want to thank you and Senator Mikulski for chairing this hearing this morning.

I think we'll agree to disagree, based upon how I read the letter.

If you want to have true reform then you've got to reform all aspects.

I believe these are essential features that we're going to have to exercise to hold down health care costs.

This bill would only help one group, foreign workers.

I believe that through this health care debate we have to be as concerned about expansion of coverage as we are about access to care.

I would encourage my colleagues--well, I found out more information in my one phone call to North Carolina than I think your report did.

Thank you for that, Dr. Hunt, and thank you for noticing that I blurred the line between disability back to medical care, unintentionally, but I am glad that I did so that you could sort of fill me in on that.