It is so important that we get the VA the tools that they need to get rid of bad employees, and anyone who has wronged a veteran should not get to stay on administrative leave for months on end.

The VA needs to improve access to doctors that can meet their gender-specific health needs and ensure their policies on safety and privacy for women veterans are properly carried out in all VA facilities.

So, tell me, what it is going to take to change problems like this in the system?

What would be a timeframe that you could get back to me on this?

I am proud to have worked on both of these bipartisan bills with Senator Murray.

The choice out in Ely, and other rural small towns in Nevada, is you either have to drive to Reno, which is 300 miles one way, or you have to drive to Salt Lake, which is 300 miles the other way.

Can you tell me why you think veterans currently dislike the Choice program?

I rise to speak on an issue that is vitally important to the well-being, safety, and security of Nevadans; namely, Yucca Mountain. I have said it before--and I will say it again--that Yucca Mountain is dead. Let me repeat myself. Yucca…

Things like leg room and all that?

I want to make sure that we're all on the same page, and that is that we realize that air flight and passenger care does determine the quality of any trip an individual goes on.

But it's choice with a cost. It's choice with a cost.

Let me tell you why I'm asking that question.

If you're taller than six feet, do you have to pay more to get on an airplane than someone that is shorter than six feet?

What's more important, the room in an airplane with seats or your tray that goes up and down in front of you?

So I have legislation I'm working on with the Chairman that will streamline the Federal permitting process.

They do know this, that if communities don't have broadband, the people will leave, and that has been a concern for the rural portions of our state.

There's a lot of temptation sitting at this seat to make a lot of decisions, but the biggest temptation is this muffin that's sitting right here in front of me.

I believe that people in these communities deserve broadband, and Valley Electric told me that the delayed applications from the Federal land agencies is the number one barrier to broadband deployment.

How do we hold these agencies accountable?

Yes, but my problem when I talk about process is with the government agencies themselves.

as we approach yet another deadline to continue funding for the government, I rise to speak today regarding my frustration and disappointment that Congress is once again kicking the can down the road. I am frustrated that I keep having to…

My position remains the same. It is that Yucca Mountain is dead.

Identifying communities that are willing to host for long-term repositories, rather than forcing it upon States, is the only viable solution to our Nation's nuclear waste problems.

Since 1987, Yucca Mountain's Nuclear Waste Repository has been a thorn in Nevada's side.

It is time to move past failed proposals of the past and look for solutions to the future.