"I just want to thank Mr. Hubbard for his very powerful and damning testimony."
"I think if you can meet the concern to his constituent's satisfaction and if you could report back to the Committee, then we don't need an act of Congress to get this done."
"We are going to have to confront this the way free--generations of Americans have confronted other threats."
"I think the U.S. Congress has got to embrace this as our fight."
"Those who are about to testify, some of whom we have heard many times at this table before..."
"Ranking Member"
"For 30, 40 years, we've continued to sprawl out to the edges of the [E]arth and it was costing us more than we were making as a community."
"I would just like to add to the Chairman's thanks to you, Mr. London, for working with those other Members."
"I think it is critical that these two Committees work more closely together."
"Let us get rid of unproductive mediocre senior executives that are in the way of excellence at the VA."
"Something that you told us when we first had a chance to meet with you that has stuck with me since is that the United States has two principal powers, the power of intimidation and the power of inspi..."