These changes will not happen overnight, and this Committee must provide the critical oversight to ensure those changes occur and are effective.

These changes will not happen overnight and this Committee must provide the critical oversight to ensure these changes occur and are effective.

the role of the Office of Special Counsel and the IG are even more crucial now than ever before.

I join my colleagues today to discuss the administration's misguided foreign policy, especially as it relates to Afghanistan and the threat of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Haqqani Network. Despite what the administration would have you…

last week the Senate passed H.R. 3230, Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act. Today, I rise to address some concerns my colleagues raised about whether veterans will be able to choose their own…

North Carolina's subsidy to higher education is extremely high for in-State students.

Our active duty forces that are stationed within North Carolina, their children receive in-State tuition on Day One.

It does not take the Federal Government stepping in to create something.

The Veterans Affairs committee, which Senator Sanders ranks, and I am the ranking member, has jurisdiction over many veterans education programs.

It has not been fully completed.

Mr. Secretary, were you aware that on October 25, 2013, the Office of Special Counsel requested that VA conduct an investigation into the allegations of the inappropriate scheduling at the Fort Collins Community Outpatient Clinic?

I think, if VA had asked hard questions regarding these statistics, we would not be here today discussing recent allegations surrounding many VA facilities.