Congress' intent was pretty clear and, in fact, not only has there been one court case on it, which went in favor of the veterans, there has now been an appeals case, which ruled that VA is wrong.

I would like to talk about the Choice Act, and just reconfirm your thoughts about some directions we have got to go.

A gentleman that led South Dakota, former Governor by the name of George Mickelson, used to say that things get done by people that show up.

Just because you are pro-economic development and pro-economic development growth does not mean that you have to be anti-environment.

I am not going to ask you to make commitments, but would you please look at and just agree that you will give it fair consideration that we find a fairer way to make sure that these folks that literally have homes that it is all they got.

We need to bring back a little bit of common sense and have the people associated with those tribes involved in that decision making.

I think there was some concern that you are not a housing expert, and that you do not have a background in construction and so forth. And I got to thinking that it seems to me that probably running this department is not really brain…

I think veterans can be a healing balm for all of us because we can all agree on that.

This is a system which is broken.

I would just like--I am not sure that you even had a chance to look at any of the materials that we had shared with you, but there was a real strong concern on the part of Native Americans in the rural areas that the current formula in…

What we should be doing is providing them with a service, which they are entitled to.

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First of all, let me just thank you for putting together this discussion today. Let me thank both the Senator from Alaska and the Senator from Iowa for their service to our country, although the Senator from Iowa is clearly too young to…

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Well, I know in rural areas it is critical that we have that available, simply because we do not have the numbers without them.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, let me add my congratulations for putting this together today with Ranking Member Blumenthal.