Zach Wamp

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

We are just grossly deficient as a nation.

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.

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

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

I understand the desire to sometimes take us out of this picture, but I do think that Chairman Edwards' leadership has proven that we can annually allocate these resources in an effective way and get the money to you on time and use this…

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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As I closed the rally today with 400 veterans in support of our troops and their mission in Iraq and Afghanistan, I quoted John Stuart Mill, who said, ``War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of…

I just wanted to make our colleagues aware that besides the Smith bill, which I'm pleased to hear the Rules Committee will take time to hear, there is another bipartisan alternative that Mr. Hill of Indiana and myself have offered as well…

I just want to make the quick point that every commodity, sugar, corn, soybeans, are reduced on the AGI from $2.5 million down to 1, except sugar. Why is it not reformed like the other crops in terms of how much a person can make to…