"This is truly a great day and a beautiful day to be in love with Texas."
"All gave some, some gave all, but Gold Star families gave all."
"I can tell you that as our veterans have fought so hard for this country to keep this Union together, they are still keeping the Union together."
"It is not about red states and blue states and partisan this and that. It is about our veterans."
"A recipient of the Purple Heart would have had to wait the 36 months to avail themselves of the GI Bill."
"The Veterans Accountability Act has been worked on now for several years, and that, I think, goes to the heart of many of the problems with the VA."
"Thank you, Representative Arrington, for the opportunity, on behalf of the veteran community at LCU and for your advocacy on behalf of veterans."
"I know I beat up pretty hard on the VA, so every now and then it is nice to hear a positive story about what they are doing right."
"What frustrates me as a Member of our Subcommittee, almost on a consistent hearing-by-hearing basis, is the lack of data to determine whether something is working or not."
"I think especially there is skepticism as a Republican where some of these monies, where they go and what are the results."
"If you are a for-profit and you are performing for our veterans, great. If you are not, whether you are a for-profit or a public, why would we keep throwing good money after bad?"
"If we are saving three years of tuition, that is even better, to the Chairman's point about safeguarding the taxpayer's dollars."