I thank my friend from Minnesota (Mr. Walz) for yielding to me and for helping me with this amendment. Mr. Chair, this is very simple. It would just remove all of the accountability provisions from the bill and give the House an…

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Accurate benefits adjudication is critical to ensuring our veterans have access to the VA health care they need.

The disparity here is what is so very troubling. You have a great gap between the servicemembers identified by the Department of Defense and the positive claims granted by the VA.

Thanks to the hard work of the employees of the VA, in addition to more resources given by Congress, this backlog has been greatly reduced.

Thank you for including H.R. 5083, the Veterans Appeals Modernization Act of 2016, on the agenda today.

if we don't do it now, the situation is just going to get worse.

this is a historic moment, so I appreciate your suggestions and comments, but let us not move forward with this.

MOAA thanks Representative Dina Titus (D-NV) for her leadership in this area.

H.R.5083 - VA Appeals Modernization Act of 2016, introduced by Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-1), is an attempt to improve the appeals process of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

I, too, have no further speakers. I just want to say that I support this legislation. I urge my colleagues to do the same, and I also admonish them to show the same degree of urgency when it comes to reauthorizing the FAA. I yield back the…

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We have heard estimates from Arlington National Cemetery that they are going to be at capacity within two decades, so we need to have a plan for what we are going to do there at the cemetery.

It would be very nice to have some women veterans at the table talking about it themselves.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for holding this hearing today, so we can discuss some of this important legislation that affects our veterans.

I have been sponsoring or cosponsoring this measure for years now and, if it is so great that we do it for one year, wouldn't it be greater if we just did it for every year automatically like we do Social Security?

I think the more diversity you have in your recruiting, the better.

it presents us an opportunity, because with this many vacancies, it kind of dovetails with the Secretary's position of recreating the VA as my VA and making it more veteran-centric.

we need to not only focus on making it easier for the VA to discipline and dismiss employees, but also to recruit and retain the best employees.

we will include in it legislation that Mr. Takano and I have worked on to kind of continue something we started when we were doing the Choice Act.

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