Our bill authorizes VA recruiters to make job offers to physicians up to 2 years prior to fulfilling all of the VA's requirements.

An axiom I heard often when I started on the Committee was that 'when you've seen one VA, you've seen one VA.'

I contend that as long as Congress sees fit to impose any standard on the VA regarding those caring for veterans, we have a duty to ensure that the standard is appropriate.

I believe that advancement of this legislation will help begin to fill the VA's many vacant health care positions.

The goal, I think, for our VA health care system should be to deliver quality care efficiently in a timely fashion.

One of the most important things Congress can do to help returning servicemembers reintegrate back into civilian life is to support and prioritize programs that help them find meaningful employment or education and training opportunities.

What you said before, Mr. O'Rourke, is very true, this Committee gets a lot of things done and works very well together.

SVA is proud to support the bipartisan Veterans' Education, Transition, and Opportunity Prioritization Plan (VET OPP) Act of 2018.

It is imperative that Congress pass the VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2018 to provide the VA the resources to effectively and comprehensively treat the complexity of every veteran's mental and physical wounds.

It seems to me that our own people sometimes don't know what we have until it is gone.

For the Russians, it was heads, I win, tails, you lose.