David Roe

That's ridiculous, and it's expensive, because they are, again, doing all these things.

That's one of the ways we could have more money, is to decrease the amount of regulatory burden we placed on these colleges and universities.

I've sponsored a bill called the Desert Storm and Desert Shield War Memorial Act.

I totally agree that it is not science based.

It ought to be studied like any other chemical, and it has not been.

What I cannot understand, if you are going to a failing school, why anybody would want to keep a child in that school.

State-collected data show that more than two-thirds of the students in the Wisconsin Choice Program and about half of the Indiana voucher recipients were enrolled in private schools before they received the voucher.

The legacy of ESEA that improvements in education support a basic civil right and should benefit all of our children--that concept is at risk.

Drastic cuts in general education budgets in a number of states threaten the ability to fully implement initiatives to improve the quality of education for students nationwide.

Today, we will discuss the private school choice initiatives that have proliferated throughout the country for the last 20 years.

Hopefully, this is just a start of instead of treating disease, curing disease.

I might buy a cabin seat and go take the--and then have my viral tire checked and see if I was cured.

The question is, our people are paying the price for that, and when we look at a 42,000--it is 80,000 on the private side--to get this treatment.

I think you need to be thinking about it now, because it is not inexpensive.

This is a celebration of a real success.

It is nothing short of a miracle for patients.

I believe that Bob McDonald and Sloan Gibson are outstanding leaders trying to move the department into the 21st Century.

If you are going to say something, do it. If you are going to do it, do it right.

I think that is all we are asking.

It is hard for me to go home, as their representative, and explain that to them when you have a veteran who is waiting on an answer for a claim that has been submitted.

We are trying to find out what they are and resolve the problems because it is affecting veterans.

I will see the patients, get the information right back over there in a timely fashion, take care of them.

So it is impossible to pick up with the current system that you have their productivity.

I think probably you will find most of us physicians on the panel up here are more interested in the access and the quality of care that veterans are getting.

I can assure you that if some of these people had been working in your shop when you were in the private sector, or in my shop when I was in the private sector, they would have been fired.