"The truth is, is the deficit needs to be dealt with in a common sense way."
"I would ask for your commitment to briefing my staff on how the VA is enforcing compliance and accountability for providers when prescribing opioids."
"I was pleased to see strong support in your budget for community-based suicide prevention efforts."
"As we have discussed, I have been working with Wisconsin veterans, who raised concerns about the quality of the compensation and pension exams that they receive for traumatic brain injury, and other n..."
"Thank you, Secretary McDonough, I want to thank you for your strong support in the budget for the Jason Simcakoski Memorial and PROMISE Act."
"I just would keep in mind for a state like Wisconsin where many of our facilities are Guard facilities that we were not able to participate between 2017 in that reversal of policy last year."
"I want to also get information of how we look back, and have some parity or Equity for that time that the Guard installations were excluded from the program."
"Due to a policy change in 2017, the National Guard was removed from the Defense Environmental Restoration Program."
"I worked with Senator Leahy to fund noise mitigation through our annual appropriations."
"the reliance then on the Air National Guard to fill those gaps is critical."
"I urge you to continue, and double up on those efforts."