"Do you have the funds that you need within your Department to adequately staff for the transition that will need to take place?"
"It's a measure of the significance of this program, in terms of readiness, for these families who have given so much."
"If we don't get them home and with their families, and get them the care they need, then we're going to be in trouble in the future."
"I hear it all the time, they're afraid to say something is wrong, because they don't want to sit there, miles and thousands of miles away from family."
"The Homeless Veterans and Other Health Care Authorities Act of 2010 lays the foundation on which we as a nation can wage a successful assault on veteran homelessness."
"How are we going to work better with our communities to help create partnerships or apprenticeships or other ways for our veterans to get back into the workforce?"
"I just want to make sure you are staying in touch with us to make sure that we have got the resources to be able to deal with that issue and see that happen."
"I am a little frustrated with the bureaucracy and the delay surrounding the release of the suicide rates for female veterans by the VA."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate your having this hearing today."
"In the State of Washington, we're very interested in adding a Stryker Brigade Combat Team to the Army National Guard."
"I have often said that I hope we some day become--and I think you are in the process of doing that--as good at taking care of our veterans as we are creating them."