"An issue that I would like to get your thoughts on, and I really loved Ms. Titus' idea about getting more residencies in rural or hard-to-serve communities like ours, is this question of where are we ..."
"I think this is a crisis. And frankly I do not see the urgency from you."
"I would fly down to El Paso immediately and try to discover who those 36 percent of the veterans seeking mental healthcare appointments who have been denied and locked out of the system are."
"I think we need a SWAT team flown down to El Paso to go connect these people."
"But, Mr. Chair, earlier I had the privilege of introducing Ms. Gipson who will be testifying in a later panel."
"Let me see if I can understand this because this is a difficult concept for me to get and it is similar to the way that you explained to us the backlog numbers when it comes to disability claims for v..."
"Okay. And I have got limited time, but the reason then that I am showing 48 days army-wide versus 30 days which is what you are saying is that you still have those older cases in the system and as soo..."
"Are you saying that by August, you will relieve the backlog and by October, you will meet that 15 day goal?"
"So I want to ask the same set of questions as it pertains to the VA rating part of this which is that the goal is 15 days."
"The BDD, the Benefits Delivery Discharge claims and the Quick Start claims I think year to date are under 25,000."
"I have heard this directly from servicemembers at the WTU at Fort Bliss in El Paso."
"There is this understandable tension between people who are on the verge of transitioning out and their commanders."