"Honestly, I find it a bit offensive that the VA is asking for this legislation when they can do the same thing through policy today."
"There is no reason at all that the Secretary cannot say, if you have acted in bad conduct with a purchase card, you are hereby suspended from having a purchase card."
"My personal feeling is, you give, you know, 10,000 credit cards out, you get what you get."
"The VA's sole mission is to serve our veterans. Instead of having the red carpet rolled out for them, veterans are treated like a burden."
"Some veterans have waited more than two years to simply get their medical records from the VA. That is unacceptable."
"My bill, introduced along with Congressman Seth Moulton, is a bipartisan, readily available solution to this problem."
"I have talked to Secretary Zinke about this generally. There is a lot of stuff he wants to do."
"So, you anticipate that they will be preserved as you move forward, the 503A----"
"So great discussion is going on now across VA and in the parts of the organization that I work about clarifying those roles and responsibilities."
"I greatly appreciate your attention to this issue."
"The FSMB commends the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate for recognizing deficiencies in information sharing and moving swiftly to rectify them."
"Does it make any sense that we would tie the hands of the State of Alaska, the hands of her people..."