David Roe

The future of the VA's health care system is in the hands of the American veteran.

Transformation is never easy, especially for an organization as large and complex as VA.

We are working on legislation that would create a competitive interoperability strategy to make sure we resolve this problem as soon as possible.

If a veteran-centric vision is not guiding this implementation, then we need to figure out what needs to change.

We want transparency. Veterans expect and deserve transparency.

I want to be sure that we leave this hearing today absolutely clear on what would have to happen for the worst-case scenario to come to pass.

I have to say that I am disappointed in this result, and I urge OMB to reconsider whether its bureaucratic internal processes are actually serving the government and the taxpayer well.

I think that again was what I was getting to both specifically with respect to having more than one hospital in an area.

I think that we all stakeholders have to be part of this solution without a doubt.

I thank the Chair and I want to thank the Chair for having this very important hearing and all the members for being here.

We should guarantee every American the right to vote unintimidated and with a secret ballot.

You should have a secret ballot so you are not intimidated either, as Ms. Harper mentioned, either for or against.

I dropped a bill yesterday called the Employee Rights Act, and I want to look after the employees.

Thank goodness, President Trump has tried to bring these back. We have added 600,000 manufacturing, good-paying jobs for American workers.

Look, the most protective worker in the world is the United States worker, employee, no question about it.

All I was interested in, when I drew the bottom line, was how much of a check do I have to write you all, and that check keeps getting bigger and bigger.

You can now go to community college in our State for free.

I think colleges are going to have to rethink, with all of the technology that is on this PDA I have got in my hand right here, I can learn a lot at no cost.

77 percent finish on time, 97 percent are placed in a job, and 100 percent graduate with no debt.

In Tennessee, we have decided that education had to be affordable for our citizens.

I think we need to stay strong.

These kinds of programs can address a national security need as well as education and nutrition.

We missed an opportunity in 2014 to put a composite plan or a hybrid plan out there.

The problem that we have right here, it is basically an arithmetic problem.

I am a public school proponent. I didn't go to kindergarten. They didn't have one. And the facility I started in was a two-room country school without indoor plumbing or running water. But I had great teachers.