12/03/2013
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"If you are missing legislative authority to do any of the things that you are talking about doing to turn around and improve the culture at the VA I hope that you will come to us as quickly as you kno..."
"But common sense tells me, just from cases that I have seen in my district, that there is a cause and effect relationship between care that is delayed, that ends up being care that is denied, that end..."
"I think we need to institutionalize these cultural changes."
"We know in this country 22 veterans a day sadly take their own lives."