"you saved us as a Nation, you saved freedom for what is happening; come home and save our economy."
"There was that issue before; now people have gotten the message you are not going to be verified, you are going to be investigated if you come in and say you are a vet when you are not."
"So many of these veterans that are coming home in Oklahoma are coming home to find employers eager to be able to hire them because of their leadership and their great work ethic."
"If we are dealing with a number of 76 percent, that is a rather high percentage of potential failure in it."
"If we have a company that puts a service-disabled veteran on the list, provides documents and says this is where they are in leadership, this is where their name should be on the door, but you actuall..."
"So far, this year, we are at about 48 percent denials or more than half now we are verifying."
"Thank you for the work that you are doing and not only for this hearing, but the work you are doing all the time, when the cameras are off as well."
"So this is the self-certify. So if I go to HHS and say I am a service-disabled veteran and I own this company and I want to bid for this contract, they just check I am a service-disabled veteran, but ..."
"companies in Oklahoma love hiring veterans because they don't know when to quit."
"We need to verify with our trust."
"So you are saying currently the standard is 51 percent ownership, but 100 percent control."