Thank you for being willing to be at this hearing today to help other parents so that they don't have to go through this.

Right, because once you've been victimized once--I have to say, my uncle was a victim of tax-related fraud too, and he wasn't just victimized once. It was twice.

I want to thank you for being here today, and I appreciate that you had the opportunity to hear from Ms. Weeks and Mr. Walker.

It sounds like getting back to allowing professionals to have tools that they've had in the past to communicate on behalf of their clients.

If we're going to allocate additional resources, we need better management also.

I hope from this hearing we can have some follow-up to what Mr. Walker is dealing with, to help professionals help their clients to solve these problems.

Yes, we've talked about the fraud and issues that need to be resolved. They could be better addressed there.

I need you to pin them down.

Mr. President, if you care about our veterans... it seems like our veterans deserve action on this immediately by the President of the United States.

the notion that the VA would be more focused on identifying the whistleblowers versus the underlying problems I think just demonstrates Exhibit A of what we are dealing with

we actually introduced a piece of legislation that if the positions were not filled within 210 days, the authority to fill would then be transferred to Congress

I support the USF High Cost fund program as long as those funds are really targeted to unserved areas.