Bernie Sanders

It's up to us to stand by our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guardsmen.

S.XXXX would direct the VA to provide support for family members and caregivers of veterans with mental health disorders.

One of the areas that we are going to work on is to expand and simplify VA health care.

I think VA is beginning to do a good job. We will probably have a hearing on that issue but I think we are making some progress in at least informing veterans of the benefits to which they are entitled.

I appreciate all the work this Committee has done to honor our Nation's veterans.

VVA wholeheartedly supports this measure.

We spend billions of dollars because people do not have access to primary health care and they end up in the emergency room at 10 times the cost.

Let me just say this to them.

We must not continue kicking the can down the road while servicemembers and veterans are subjected to an untenable system.

I thank the Senator from Georgia for yielding, and I ask unanimous consent to address the Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Brown). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Vermont. ____________________

I wish the American people also to understand that we are going to win this struggle because of the determination of the majority leader, who is standing for tens of millions of Americans who not only want access to affordable health care…

What I would say to the majority leader--and I was on the floor the other day reading quotes--when Social Security was first created, we had quotes from Republicans who were talking about the end of life as we know it, slavery coming to…

Absolutely. Absolutely. Let me make a point for the majority leader. Today was the first day people could go onto the exchanges. Maybe the majority leader would like to explain to the American people that, in fact, some of these Web sites…

I am aware of that. The point the leader is raising, what the question speaks to is that this is not a game we are playing when we are dealing with whether kids and others get treatment for cancer. What we are dealing with are life…

The last point I will make. Maybe the most important discussion we should have is ending and overturning this disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision which gives the billionaires in this country the ability to control what goes…

I would hope very much, if you are confirmed, that you will apply yourself to make sure that we can in fact make that transition to renewable energy in a successful and efficient way.

Although you may not see it reflected in this Congress the scientific community is almost unanimous in agreeing that global warming is real, that it is caused by human activity, that it is already causing widespread destruction in our…

That ought to be a wakeup call to all concerned.

I think that as time goes on more and more Americans and even Members of Congress will wake up to the reality that we need to transform our energy system.

I think to remember Deamonte Driver, our job is to dedicate ourselves to make very, very significant improvements to our dental care system so we never see another Deamonte Driver situation again in this country.

We are going to take a look at models which seem to be high quality and cost-effective.

Let me just say to Mr. Nycz and to everybody here that we're going to do our best to focus more and more attention on this issue--why this hearing is so important.

You're convinced the quality is good?

That's all you have? And there is only one dental shortage designation area in the county.

You're absolutely right, and that's why we're holding hearings like this, just to raise that consciousness.