VHA needs a complete overhaul--from the way it schedules and delivers care to patients, to the way it treats its employees.

This reform must enable VA to focus on healthcare and operate, like the Secretary has previously stated, as a business.

But for patient protection, isn't that important? I mean, I would think if I had an implant of some kind--well, actually I do have lens implants--that we should be able to--that is why I can see you, I had both lenses implanted--and I…

The fact that it is hard doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.

I didn't think it was possible to make politicians speechless, but they have succeeded beyond my wildest expectations.

The six million veterans served annually by VHA deserve the high standard of patient care in the nation.

If the NLRB's new proposed joint employer standard becomes the law of the land, it will be tantamount to re-writing hundreds of thousands of contractual relationships by government fiat in ways the parties never contemplated to their…

This radical effort is detached from reality for two important reasons.

It's especially challenging when Washington bureaucrats change the rules in the middle of the game.

The American people deserve to know what the federal government is up to and how it will affect their families.

We have lost--10 million of our citizens have lost--health insurance coverage in the last six years.

Under the President's plan, health care costs are going up, not down, and full-time jobs are being destroyed, not created.

Unfortunately, the President's health care law is not the right prescription for reform.

I am confident we will find ways to disagree without being disagreeable.

Every member of this committee supports the right of workers to freely choose whether or not to join a union.

Not because you have to do these things, because it is the right thing to do.

I look forward to continuing to work with the Committee to ensure that no veteran feels trapped like Daniel.

these reforms to mental health treatment are necessary to provide safe and inclusive care for all veterans.

By working together, and using the strength that the Somers family shows every day, we can end the scourge of veteran suicide.

What the Affordable Care Act has done is done exactly that: It has raised costs for 11 million people and lowered it for 6 million.

Rising health care costs remain a significant challenge for workers and job creators nationwide.

We have lost 1,000 employees. There are registered nurses now that are worried to death that they are going to lose their jobs.

I think we should--I think we absolutely should look at a program, and I agree with the idea of increasing access, increasing quality, lowering costs, and trying to cover all Americans.

The problem with it is that it prescripts what you must buy instead of you sitting down with your employees and finding exactly what they need.

Let's work together to make health care more affordable, instead of raising costs with more heavy-handed rules and bureaucratic overreach.