Beto O'Rourke

I would think there would be a date certain that you are going to commit if you want to make sure that we are going to be there for you.

Are we not, Ms. Wormuth, creating a moral hazard for Europe and especially for these Baltic States?

I think you made a number of excellent points, including the need to have a clear and comprehensive strategy from the administration before we move forward with an authorization for the use of military force.

When somebody sits at the table of the United States of America, they better be sitting there fully recognizing international law and at least having a recognition of internationally accepted norms and behaviors.

If they failed to adhere to global standards and norms and values... then we need to rethink our ties.

We want to be and I want to figure out how we are going to do that.

I really feel that you personally have set a new bar for leadership and accountability and responsibility for the problems that you encountered.

There is a much larger cost than the immediate one that we consider.

I would argue the point that we are still at war in Afghanistan.

I wish they were building a VA hospital there. But it is alarming that we are spending $1.1 billion for an Army medical center.

You are committed to the concept. You are supportive of that whether it comes through this bill or some other bill.

The bill that we introduced last year and we are planning to reintroduce again in this session of Congress with Mr. Cook of California would essentially do that, give the veteran a choice.

Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Titus, thank you for allowing me to join you today in the hearing.

I just wanted to take a moment, and I know that I speak for you and for the Committee in extending our condolences to the family of Dr. Fjordbak.

The facility we have is inadequate, insufficient and unacceptable and we can and must do better for our veterans and for those who serve them out of that facility.

I would love your commitment to sit down with us and go through what happened here and how it is we are going to ensure that we shelter and provide services for those who are unsheltered in El Paso right now.

I will say an issue that has consumed this committee has been accountability and the culture at the VA.

Thank you for your work for everyone that we serve on this committee.

I don't know that we are asking those whose family members were already interred or buried at that cemetery who did not have a choice in whether it was converted from grass to rocks.

Thank you for the great job that you do and that your team does.

I have enjoyed working with you in my first term in Congress.

I am looking for an option, some way that we can work together to get past what is unacceptable to my community.

The cemetery in El Paso at Fort Bliss is in many ways remarkable.

You have been very responsive to us to meet personally.

I want to thank her and the team in El Paso who do a phenomenal job.