David Roe: “Today's hearing represents the next step in a long process to strengthen the retirement security of America's workers by…”

This is highly inappropriate. I think--and you seem to be very proud of the fact that your office has been engaged in this sort of stuff, and this way of operating.

I want to thank the Chairman for bringing this bill forward, and hopefully we can get this thing done and out of here by Christmas.

It is not a threat to the VA, it is a lifeline to the VA.

It is embarrassing to me to go home and to look those folks in the eye who work as hard as they do and write the checks they do to see this big of a disaster, financial disaster.