Bernie Sanders

Such as extending long-term unemployment, putting money in the hands of people who desperately need that money.

The wealthiest people in this country are not simply reinvesting their money in business or putting it under their mattress.

Do we have a problem that one family, the Walton family of Wal-Mart, owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people, one family?

We need more Federal assistance. We need it long-term, we need reliability.

If we provided you with substantial sources of funding, we had a creative relationship, does anyone doubt that that would not be a significant job creator?

This is an enormously important hearing. Because it is vitally important that we hear from folk around the country who are struggling with one of the great challenges that we have, and that is a crumbling infrastructure.

Congress emphasized the importance of a regulatory framework that worked for the broad diversity of farming systems in America.

Enactment of S. 932 will generally free all VA services from the political gridlock that has crippled the appropriations process in Congress.

We need to make sure that people have access to mental health services in a timely manner.

The country, above and beyond the VA, faces a crisis in lack of quality, affordable access to mental health care.

We all understand the mental health needs that have arisen out of the wars.

We applaud Senator Boozman and Senator Begich for leading this effort in the Senate by introducing S. 932, the 'Putting Veterans Funding First Act.'

I am a great believer in primary health care.

General Shinseki, when you came into your position, you announced a very ambitious goal, and that goal was to process all claims in 125 days with 98 percent accuracy by 2015.

For the last several years, there has been a loud concern about the backlog.

We are not going to turn our backs on those veterans.

We have seen 2,300 individuals suffer wounds in war that make it impossible for them to have kids.

The cost of war is much, much greater, I think, than most Americans perceive.

We are dealing now with hundreds of thousands of men and women who have come home from Iraq and Afghanistan, dealing with traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder.

I want to thank all of our guests from VA for being with us today to discuss the budget.

We are all distressed and saddened by the number of suicides that we face.

We think we are making some progress. We want to continue that progress.

I also want to thank them, as well as my environmental policy adviser, Jacob Smith, for all of the hard work they have done on this important issue.

This is the United States of America. This is not a Third World developing country.

I think the answer is pretty clear. The Canadians have seen the American system. They prefer their own.