I think of a billion dollars that was wasted in Aurora that could have provided VA veterans healthcare.

I have been here 6 and a half years and we keep providing more and more and more and more money, and then we have the VA come back for more money.

There is no way on this Earth that the primary care is 4 days and that mental health is 3 days and the specialty care is 5 days.

I think the Choice program, as I understand it, as we envisioned it, was to help get rid of the backlog.

I don't know where that information came from. It doesn't exist at our shop, I can tell you.

I am sorry I had to leave. I had to go to the House floor to testify on a VA bill.

According to the GAO, the VBA has not provided a plan or a timeline for implementing the new verification system.

I just had, not 6 weeks ago, one of the best friends I will ever have on this Earth, who was a Vietnam-era veteran, who died of a very rare lymphoma that very well may have been related to Agent Orange.

The new IT system--this is 2012. The new IT system is not scheduled to be operational until 2015, and it is still not operational.

his bill ought to be passed. That is just so common sense.

I would encourage us to have the same thing for the baby, that the first six weeks of care--exactly like the mother.

I am really, I am not sure, as I said here before, that I can vote to let the VA build another major project.