Bernie Sanders

Do we have a health care system? I was not aware that we had a health care system in America.

Let us not balance the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable people in our country. I ask unanimous consent to add Senator Whitehouse to my amendment No. 198. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The…

I thank the Chairwoman. The sooner we can work on this the better, as it will really give the program and all the centers across the country the stability and certainty they need to plan for the future.

The time is long overdue for us to start investing in our young people, to help them get the jobs they need and to help them get the education they need.

Mental health is a different issue, and it is a much more complicated issue, whether it is in the private sector or within the military and the VA.

I think it is fair to say that both VA and DOD, have a very good reputation for treating the wounds of war in terms of prosthetics, in terms of how we take care of amputees.

This is an issue. That is just a huge number; and it gives us an indication of the enormity of the problem.

This is a mammoth issue, the number of veterans that are suffering.

Thank you, Senator Tester.

I think the average American would be shocked that we are losing more people to suicide than to armed combat.

The cost of war is a lot heavier and more tragic than many people realize.

The costs have been high not just in the loss, the tragic loss, of life that we have experienced.

We are losing about 22 veterans every single day as a result of suicide.

I think we all understand that the year 2013 in the 21st century there is no choice but to go forward into a paperless system.

We need your ideas, as I indicated earlier, and your advice as to how legislatively and in other ways we can be effective in expediting the process and improving accuracy.

I suspect there is more that you are thinking about. I think this is an issue that we should explore together.

The goal is a strong goal and I support that ambitious timeline.

The goal of the VA--the very significant step forward in terms of accuracy and processing claims in a rapid way by 2015--is a very, very ambitious goal.

I want to thank General Shinseki and the VA for doing this--making certain that Vietnam veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange and became ill as a result of that exposure, finally after years and years of delay, get the benefits that…

I think we can all agree that that is a very, very ambitious goal.

Do you believe that global warming is an issue of urgency which the U.S. Government, including the Department of the Interior, should act upon? Is it urgent?

There are over 10,000 megawatts, enough for 3.4 million homes of renewable energy projects including 18 utility scale solar facilities.

I was sitting next to Senator Murkowski and both of us were paying a lot of attention to that.

If we do not get our act together and cut back substantially on greenhouse gas emissions, it is altogether likely that the temperature of this planet will rise by 8 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century causing cataclysmic problems…

Will you give us a pledge that you will make that effort to find those vendors?