"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."
"For the last several years, there has been a loud concern about the backlog."
"the cost of war is much, much greater, I think, than most Americans perceive."
"We applaud Senator Boozman and Senator Begich for leading this effort in the Senate by introducing S. 932, the 'Putting Veterans Funding First Act.'"
"The country, above and beyond the VA, faces a crisis in lack of quality, affordable access to mental health care."
"We need to make sure that people have access to mental health services in a timely manner."
"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 not going to turn our backs on those veterans."
"We think we are making some progress. We want to continue that progress."