For God's sakes, let us do it. Tell us what we can do to be partners to change this in a way that it works.
Is it time for us to start over again, to take a blank sheet of paper and say, How do we design this in a way for the benefits of the servic...
We are all in agreement that we are just south of 400 days in the cycle of an applicant being processed.
We have been very open about saying that this is a system that needs significant improvements.
that's a long time for servicemembers to be held in limbo--not knowing whether their military careers are over.
But the reality is that we have got a broken system, and we are 5 years into it.
the number of servicemembers going through this process who have taken their own lives, succumb to drugs, or suffered other unfortunate outc...
Due to their interrelated nature, the responses to the pre-hearing questions submitted by Senator Burr to the Department of Veterans Affairs...
I thank my colleague. Madam Chairman, thank you for this hearing, and Mr. Gingrich, I share your cold. It is not fun.
it's still taking nearly 400 days for injured and ill servicemembers to transition to civilian life.
I would ask, would you share with us the data that shows us that 60-day average for payment?