Political Quotes

“I am happy, if the Senator from Arizona needs more time at the end of his 4, for him go right ahead. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I wish to thank a lot of people, including the staffs of the committees, Senator Sanders' staff, Dahlia Melendez and Travis Murphy; Senator Burr's staff, Natasha Hickman, Maureen O'Neill, Anna Abram, and Victoria Lee; Senator Coburn's staff, Jabari White; my own staff, Elizabeth Lopez, Jeremy Hayes, and Joe Donoghue, and all the hard work that has gone into this legislation. I think it is well known to my colleagues that this is an unprecedented piece of legislation in that for the first time it is going to provide our veterans with a choice. There are many other provisions I would like to discuss also but have been, and I am sure my colleague from Vermont will be addressing those. There are, according to a recent VA audit, over 57,000 veterans who have been waiting for an appointment for over 3 months to see a physician at the VA. Over 63,000 veterans over the past 10 years have never been able to get an appointment at all. There are allegations in the Phoenix VA hospital that 40 veterans have died. Today, June 11, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened a criminal investigation into allegedly misleading scheduling practices at the Department of Veterans Affairs that may have concealed how long veterans had to wait for appointments to see a doctor.…”