David Roe

Where are the people who actually were involved in doing this? They should be the ones who are here.

I think we do owe these families an apology.

It is simply unacceptable in a time of tightening belts that over $1 billion is being wasted by the VA due to a computer error when the money could be put towards benefits and health care for our Nation's veterans.

I think having been in the operating room thousands of times, I always planned on a train wreck and hoped I would go on a train ride, and what we need to do is plan-- this is a train wreck. We need to plan the train ride I think is what we…

And I think both sides of the aisle understand that we have got a little bit of a timeline with this sunset to get moving.

And I really appreciate you being here a week before Christmas because I felt it was very important.

I am, as one who spends his life working on fixing businesses, an optimist.

Before we begin, I would like to take a moment to extend my condolences to the people of Newtown, Connecticut.

I hope you will help us get the answers we need without unnecessary delay.

Congress is ultimately responsible for legislating changes that will improve the long-term health and stability of the multiemployer pension system.

I would just ask you, Mr. Gould, how do we do a better job of back planning from the outcome that Dr. Roe was talking about?

My biggest fear is it is very hard for us to ask the public to continue to justify giving you money for this professional development.

The perception amongst the public is this is a good time free-for-all on the public's dollar, not to get anything out of this.

It is embarrassing for me to go home and try to explain to people why their money is being wasted.

I have veterans that come up and say, I can't get in the hospital down here, Doc. I am in a line 40 miles long, and then they show me this videotape where they show me this plush event that occurred in Orlando.

The perception out there when you see this, if you are a taxpayer in east Tennessee where I live, just barely getting by, and you are paying your taxes and you see these silly videos or you see these other things, even if it is a tenth of…

And the perception out there is if you have got one set of rules for people in government, and the other perception is there is the rest of us out there in the real world.

Is there in the foreseeable future, is that going to happen?

But what we were told was the veteran would be able to electronically go to their iPad or their computer and--

When is that going to happen?

I want to start by thanking the VA.

54,000 constituent requests sounds like a lot.

When am I going to get some resolution for me?

The courts have been very good at separating church and state in this country for 220 years.

They need to butt out about whether there is substantial religious character at a religious college.