Well, I think we mentioned this yesterday in a meeting you and I both attended_that when the Atlanta airport opened that life expectancy in America was 57.

I think that we are going to work to make that happen, to come to fruition.

Today's hearing represents the next step in a long process to strengthen the retirement security of America's workers by reforming the multiemployer pension system.

We should stop calling this posttraumatic stress disorder and posttraumatic stress and look at how we heal these veterans.

I think the goal ought to be with the commission is how do we... get these folks who are on disability, get them back in the workforce.

I wholeheartedly support this legislation. It is past due. We should do this for our very, very seriously-wounded veterans who want to have families.

I could not agree more with you in including some alternative things like the arts, music.

we didn't spend $309,000 of the taxpayers' money that could have been spent on healthcare for veterans.

I don't see how in the world as an employee of the Veterans Administration you could sit there and see these claims piled up, basket loads of letters, because I hear it all the time when I go home, 'I haven't heard from the VA, Dr. Roe.'

It is critical that we get those claims adjudicated before that length of time.

Am I correct in that? Are there bins of letters that have been sent in and a person has a reasonable expectation to hear back from their government in a reasonable length of time?

there seems to be an ethical bankruptcy at the VA in some instances.