I really do believe that if we had not done a lot of things we did, contrary to what some in my State and some in the Senate and House think, it would have been significantly worse...
The VA is firing many of its blue collar workers, and replacing them with private contractors without going through the competition process ...
I hear consistently, as we all do, from particularly small and medium-sized businesses about the difficulty of getting credit.
Any change to the system must make it more fair.
Trust in the VA is eroded when a complicated, subjective formula spits out a rating and a dollar amount.
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...
A service-connected disability should be rated the same whether the veteran is in Dayton, Ohio, or Daytona Beach, Florida.
Transparency must be an overarching goal.
the most egregious institutions found an agency that was too easy on them.
Unfortunately, due to long delays in claims processing at the VA, it can take veterans years to get their appeals before the Court.