David Roe

I have 50 employees in my office; I have 350.

Nobody wants that. And that is a loaded question.

Well, thank goodness, because all of that effort you put in did not go to taking care of childhood cancers and research and the people down there that have done it.

I don't for 1 minute think the Obama White House is doing this on purpose, it is just what it is.

Discrimination of any kind is abhorrent.

The unemployed don't need more regulations; they need more jobs.

The goal should be to reduce and eliminate discrimination.

Thank you for your testimony.

I think it is difficult to mandate it from the federal government; I think it is difficult to mandate it from the State government.

Can you pass a drug screen? And number two, do you have the skills that we need in this job?

I think the skills gap is the biggest--I think that is the biggest detriment we have in the country.

Lastly, I just want to thank you all for representing our veterans. Each and every one of you do a great job, and thank you for the job you do in representing the interests of veterans in this country.

I think I need to go back and really look at that to see if--because I didn't fully understand what your all's objection was.

I am just an old public school guy. I didn't go to private schools. But when you do the math, it is $50 million a year and you have 800-something people; that is over $50,000 apiece per person.

I want to strongly encourage us to support this piece of legislation, and I will tell you why.

It is important that vet centers are prepared to meet the needs of our new veterans and their families.

So to your point, it is all tied together, and when we talked about the Ryan budget, it is looking at the entire budget.

It would be horrific for rates to go from 3.4 to 6.8 if you have got $100,000 in student loans.

If I can find that information--and I can--I will get that to you.

What are you doing for fraud and abuse? ... You shouldn't make money going to community college.

It is really troubling to me that we would want to make the cuts in the proposed budget by the majority today seeing that our country is falling way behind other countries.

Regrettably during the legal review of the Lake Charles CBOC lease package, it was determined that there were significant errors in the Solicitation For Offers (SFO).

I received a commitment from the VA Real Property Services that the CBOCs in my district were a high priority.

I am outraged to learn VA errors will delay the construction of two new CBOCs in my district - Lafayette and Lake Charles.

Louisiana veterans should not have to drive for hours to receive care in VA Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC).