"Congress has sidelined itself from some of its key responsibilities, and the effects of those are very serious."
"Are both those numbers overpayment?"
"And in every instance where you said the veteran owes 3.7, 47.6, 49.1 million, that money has been paid to the veterans."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and before the arrival of Dr. Wenstrup and Miss. Rice, I thought this was going to be a hearing restricted only to Members from Texas."
"Let me ask you this next question. Where does that money reside?"
"I think a really good conversation would be, you know, hey, Beto, quit banging on me for not being able to get this stuff done quickly enough."
"Could you get in the middle of it? I mean, you have the leverage."
"What is the total dollar value of outstanding uncollected overpayments?"
"So I don't want the collections agency going to the veteran, I want it going to the institution."
"What do you think about a universal service bill that helps to address the lack of community that you see nationally?"
"we could get from the servicemembers there in exquisite detail what they had done that day or the day before, what their job was, but if we asked them why they were there they would say, I don't know,..."