So, there is a separate track for Guard and Reserve versus 'regular' armed services, if I could use that term.

I think there is no reason for the VA to try to reinvent the wheel if it already exists.

Do you intend that the provider networks also include optometrists?

Fourteen months ago, there was a concern that you were using outside vendors to provide for those networks.

I look forward to working with you along with the other sponsors on the bill---- Seeing that it be put into law.

If we are able to work through those specific issues, you would find the remaining portion of the bill as being helpful in providing or responding for services in those rural areas?

It seems to me that if we have a real serious issue here with regard to PAs and providing services at the very basic levels, it seems that, if nothing else, we should be able to find a way to work through the issue involved in this if that…

I am very happy to be a supporter of S. 2170, the Veterans eHealth and Telemedicine Support Act.

Goldwater-Nichols did not design the Pentagon to fix itself, but, rather, expected an outside entity to provide that.

While it was a long overdue step to make disclosures easier for consumers, I am concerned that the new rules are making it harder for banks to make loans to consumers.

What have we learned from it and is there a new implementation plan that is trying to achieve a better rate than what they have got today?

Has implementation of the Choice Act increased access to mental health care?

It seems strange that the VA would begin their process by announcing an appointment without first conferring with the individual.

Since President Obama took office in January 2009, the EPA has issued more than 3,300 new final regulations.

the unfortunate part for my consumers living in South Dakota is that they purchase their power from the States around them, which are going to have to have increases in costs passed on to them.

The EPA routinely fails to fully monetize the costs versus the benefits of their regulations.

According to the Office of Management and Budget, over the last 10 years, EPA regulations have imposed an estimated $42 billion in annual costs on this country.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

It would appear that it does a lot to help deliver health care long term to the rural parts of the country.

You know, a lot of the folks that work for you right now, good, hardworking individuals that provide good professional services, they do not start out with a program in which you have trained them to begin with.

It sounds like a bureaucratic mess to me.

You understood the significance of it.

this is a pretty important economic decision, isn't it?

Do you know how many different lawsuits you are involved with right now on this particular rule?

the health of the water is also a very crucial economic decision.