workers deserve a fair process that allows them to decide whether or not to form a union.

Delays cause unnecessary conflict and disruption.

Is this the kind of behavior of a federal contractor that we want to reward with more contracts?

I hope that these rules are enough--the proposed rules are enough to address this pervasive problem.

So it is not less money. We are still going to--and I think we ought to be honest about that, we are at $1.1 billion.

We still don't have any idea how much it is going to cost.

Maybe we should go another route.

After listening to this and listening to Ms. Brown for the last several years here, I am not sure the VA ought to ever build a hospital.

It is embarrassing for me to go back and face my taxpayers at home and the veterans at home when they keep saying, Doc, when is this building going to be done.

Let the private sector build it.

I have become more and more convinced, at some point, we have to give every veteran his card with his benefits loaded up in it and let him choose to go to the VA or choose to go to a community provider or a community hospital.

How long does it take to get help, is what I am saying? It takes a long time, apparently.