The DAV has a resolution from its membership urging VA to redouble its efforts to request adequate funding in future budgets.

We just passed last year, as you know, the most significant changes in GI education that we have had since World War II.

I believe we need to increase accessibility of the VA to all types of veterans, including those with full-time jobs.

Is there any reason now why a CBOC or a medical facility in any State in the country could not have extended hours other than budgetary issues?

I think under President Obama we are going to make more progress, and it is imperative that we continue to work together.

We look forward to working with you on that.

I think we have to move forward to an automatic enrollment in VA for members of the Guard and Reserve.

What about Saturday hours, maybe even Sunday and evening hours? Does that make sense to people?

I think it is a huge number.

You are probably talking to the right guy, who is chairman of the Agriculture and Health and Human Services.

In fact, in Burlington, that is what we are doing. The community health centers linking up.

I, again, apologize for being late. I couldn't be at two places at the same time.

Actually, the gentleman who helped found that system is sitting behind me right now and now works on my staff.

would you agree that it makes sense and in the long run saves money if we greatly expand the number of community health centers?

I think what we are really looking at is a revolution, which will eventually filter down to the medical schools as well.

If we were not importing thousands of physicians from India and countries which themselves are in desperate need of doctors, if we were not dependent on foreign doctors, our entire primary healthcare system would collapse.

What we are working on is the quadrupling of community health centers over a 5-year period from an investment of $2 billion to $8 billion.

Believe me, it is not. Rural America faces enormous problems.

I think we are now at the moment in history where we may get to implement some of these ideas.

We have an inverted pyramid. We spend huge amounts of money on specialty care and yet we underfund, grotesquely in my view, primary health care.

Right now, in my view we need a revolution in terms of primary health care in this country.

We spend more money by far per capita on health care than any other Nation on Earth, and yet our health care outcomes are way behind many other countries.

I think we have to end the national, international disgrace that we are the only major country on Earth without a national health care program.

I was very pleased to hear, in your remarks, your understanding about the crisis of global warming, your understanding about the absurdity of us spending many, many hundreds of billions of dollars every year importing foreign oil into this…

I would hope very much, with your leadership, with President Obama's leadership, that we could bring some concrete--real, concrete changes so people understand what sustainable energy means, what energy conservation means.