"I think that one thing that--if you speak to employees they would want to make sure that you have their back."
"I guess my question is, how do I assure those veterans that this push to doing more care in the community... is not going to mean taking resources away from their VA?"
"I want to thank you so much for coming to New York and visiting our VA in Northport."
"If there is any Committee in Washington, D.C. that has the political courage to do what is necessary, it is this one."
"I think this administration has made it very clear through hiring freezes, reductions to employee retirement programs, and just overall budget cuts, that the Federal worker is just simply not a priori..."
"If the President of the United States is not putting an emphasis on protecting Federal workers----"
"But we also know that we have made real, significant progress in this fight the 16 years since 9/11."
"I think it is important to recognize that under the Obama administration we saw the creation, evolution, and implementation of effective counterterrorism policies that help lead to the deaths of sever..."
"I think it's important to recognize that under the Obama administration, we saw the creation, evolution, and implementation of effective counterterrorism policies that helped lead to the deaths of sev..."
"That is just continuing with this administration, so this is not a Republican or Democratic thing."
"If you take away the budget of the State Department and you decimate that, then I am just going to have to buy more bullets, basically."