"I hear consistently, as we all do, from particularly small and medium-sized businesses about the difficulty of getting credit."
"The system must be designed to maximize earned benefits for veterans, not to minimize compensation awards."
"By providing a fully-integrated system from the Veterans Health Administration to the Veterans Benefits Administration, we could make VA run more efficiently."
"Trust in the VA is eroded when a complicated, subjective formula spits out a rating and a dollar amount."
"A service-connected disability should be rated the same whether the veteran is in Dayton, Ohio, or Daytona Beach, Florida."
"Any change to the system must make it more fair."
"Transparency must be an overarching goal."
"the most egregious institutions found an agency that was too easy on them."
"Is there a way of doing that so that those cases which have a great deal more certainty, so that the likelihood of error will be very, very small?"
"I am pleased to offer my strong support for the nomination of my fellow Ohioan, Daniel Elliott III, to serve as Chairman of the Surface Transportation Board."
"Unfortunately, due to long delays in claims processing at the VA, it can take veterans years to get their appeals before the Court."