"We have been fighting for nearly a decade to deliver VA healthcare and benefits to the Blue Water Navy veterans exposed to Agent Orange."
"What she wanted to do was raise the funding fee from 2.25 to 2.4 percent."
"It is my sincere hope that now that an offset has been identified and passed the House 382 to ZERO, that we may also quickly pass this bill and send it to President Trump as expeditiously as possible."
"I think it is important, in this hearing, that we directly address the pay-for in H.R. 299 that will offset the nearly $1 billion cost of caring for our Blue Water Navy veterans."
"That doesn't make any sense."
"I think this is an injustice that we can and must rectify, and I think we can do it in this Congress."
"Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman and Mr. Ranking Member. I am very grateful for your leadership."
"I am so excited about the ABLE Act. We are beginning to make progress."
"one idea to address that is this idea of postal banking because we have so many post offices in every part of the country."
"you want to earn at your fullest potential."
"people want to work, and I thought that quote was really important. And I think people with disabilities desperately want to work."