David Roe

Oh, no, wait a minute, now we are going to turn around, take the money we have taken from you for educating your children.

Put simply, the Federal Government should not be taxing schools and small businesses to pay for the President's health care law.

I gave up a medical practice to run for the U.S. Congress because I care deeply about this country.

We can't fund the President's health care law at the expense of education.

I have great respect for him because he married a lovely young woman from my district, Greenville, Tennessee.

I want to thank my colleague, Representative Luke Messer, for helping lead this important effort.

Our children and working families deserve better. It is clear that we need to set aside the President's health care law and start over with real reform that will lower costs and expand access.

Small businesses are being harmed, too.

Would it be better to take some of that money and not look at building this bigger bureaucracy but to veterans?

I don't want to take the money that hard-working people including veterans go out and pay taxes and not spend it wisely.

I will never apologize up here is to spend money on our veterans.

I think getting better will solve the problem and getting more efficient will solve the problem, but I don't think--getting larger may make the problem worse.

One of the problems that VA has, that it did have was loss of trust. ... we work for the veterans.

I choose to go to the private sector because I can afford to and there are other needy veterans who cannot.

The lenses I will always view the VA through is in the examining room, patient to doctor.

I think that makes a lot of sense. I think one of the things that will help the VA get better is competition.

I do not know whether you can change the VA or not. I do not know whether it can be done or not.

And one of the things we did, I think, in the bill is extremely important, is to take the victims, not make them criminals, but make them victims, and so they can turn themselves in and not be prosecuted.

I had no idea it was as large as it was.

I really find this offensive. And the reason I find it so offensive is because we've heard over the last 6 weeks or so--and our job, as the chairman said, is oversight. We have a constitutional obligation to do this.

We had a huge backlog of claims, that was the problem we had and many of these claims not adjudicated in a way that benefited the veteran.

I think Mr. O'Rourke said have we hired enough people? Is it a problem with resources?

The VA has lost a tremendous amount of credibility and trust and it is going to be very difficult to put that humpty dumpty back together again.

I think the concern you have is when you change internet service providers, you know, as I did 3 or 4 years ago.

I think that I wish that we had a hearing on some of the other things that are pressing about equal pay for equal work, about raising the minimum wage, about conditions in the workplace.