Patty Murray actually said...

"If we are not working with the spouses and the families, we often lose a lot of the resources."

"But when our men and women transition from the battlefield to the civilian world, they often find that their skills are not understood by civilian employers."

"Ultimately, the VA and the Labor Department are organizations of people, and those in leadership roles will shape their cultures as well as their policies."

"We need you to be candid. If between the Congressional Budget Office and elsewhere it gets reduced from where you all think it ought to be, we want to know from this Committee's perspective because th..."