I think it is important that members of Congress fight through the public disdain for that.

My experience is that three groups of people typically do not admit their mistakes or liabilities: men, women and children.

I do stand united with the leadership of this Congress, committed to every man and woman that you represent.

I do think it is important, too, that VA learn from DOD and DOD learn from VA.

our commanders around the world are maybe our best State Department representatives--and they are more effective than State Department a whole lot of times.

I hope those kind of positive stories of saving America's veterans and, in this case, an active-duty serviceman, those kind of stories need to be told.

the bureaucracy of the VA is a beast that has to be tamed.

We need to have a comprehensive program that will target therapy development, and that is what we don't have in the United States, and we don't have in our V.A. system.

Let's try to find some logical middle ground. And then write some language that allows these outside groups to contribute to these unbelievable Americans and their families.

We have 250,000 homeless veterans that are sleeping on the streets of America. That is a lot. And we ought to be, as a country, embarrassed.

I don't want to scare anybody, but I heard testimony yesterday that we may be in the 15th month of a 60-month recession.

The oversight of the Congress, in my opinion, in the modern era is not adequate.

I think you are really pioneering a lot of things that the Department of Defense doesn't do.

We are just grossly deficient as a nation.

Do you know of anything else that Congress can do to remove barriers to enable support for our wounded warriors from non-federal entities?

BRAC, as a model, if we do it right and make sure it is efficient and accountable, is a good process for an objective look at how to reform a host of other programs.

And frankly, if this were anything other than the United States military sitting across the table having this versus what I just heard, we would have a field day at ripping you apart.

We need to look at ways to take those walls down, especially with the needs that we hear about and the stress that is there with multiple deployments.

This suicide rate issue is the canary in the mine, in a sense.

We will stand with you in a bipartisan and unified way until you are successful on every front.

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