We need that legislation passed.
One of your 2016 breakthrough goals is to continue to decrease the number of homeless veterans and families, which I app...
I have gotten complaints of the Seattle VA refusing to help a veteran who was in serious pain.
If you have a problem, call your Senator. They will get hold of the VA.
I want to emphasize that point--this Committee, and this Congress, wants to help VA in this effort.
I think everyone in this room agrees that our country has a duty to do everything it can to care for its veterans.
We have got to keep it up.
We cannot have the message be, 'If you have a problem, call your Senator. They will pass it on.'
Veterans deserve a system that works.
So, we know that the current system is not working. The question I pose today: is VA ready to step up and change course?
I love the words that you say. I do. But how do you have accountability for that?