I'm also concerned that this request appears to ask us to push VA towards privately provided care.

I'm not stipulating to anything that you said, but I am interested in what you're saying.

I also worry that it may be hiding cuts to in-house care in favor of privatized care.

will you work with me and others interested, in the Senate, to make sure that individuals separated under Don't Ask, Don't Tell...know that they have a way for their records to be reviewed.

I don't understand why, if the VA hasn't spent the hundreds of millions of dollars that have already been appropriated for this new system, that the VA would then request $1.2 billion on top of it.

With the exception of DOD, Mick Mulvaney is asking almost every agency cut its funding.

Our veterans should not be forced to get care in crumbling facilities not up to code.

more people need to know that this review is available to them.

I think that is a very clear example of one place being prepared in anticipation of the disaster and another hoping to get lucky and they did not get lucky.

prior to Puerto Rico, the Corps had never repaired an electric power grid of this magnitude as part of a domestic disaster response and could not predict the assignment from FEMA to restore the grid.

So obviously there needs to be more coordination because we can expect various kind of weather conditions to be hitting simultaneously in all parts of the country and our territories.

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Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate your holding this hearing to discuss the fiscal year 2019 Military Construction and Family Housing Budget Request.

I think that it is fraught with technical, political, logistical funding challenges...

We do have specific requirements for the country where we only allow for MILCON inside the fence line.

I think we need to come back to Congress and explain why we want to do this.

Red Hill is our strategic fuel reserve in Hawaii that we rely on significantly in the Pacific for any actions that we might have to take.