Thank you for holding the hearing, Madam Chair, and Ranking Member. Thank you all for your testimony.
Did you sleep here last night? No?
If we study, the Chinese are going to eat our lunch. We have got a plan. We have got to do it right.
It's time to take a breath, take a look at what you got, and then move forward.
When is it going to start?
I think this whole Committee looks forward to continuing to work to make sure the Vet Centers are the best they can be.
If we continue not to have a starting date, this will never start. And it puts this country at a tremendous risk.
Thank you for holding the hearing, Madam Chair, and Ranking Member.
You know how many Native Americans serve, highest than any other minority, and I met with some Urban Native Americans today.
We want our Native veterans to get the care that's culturally competent for them where they need it when they need it.
Montana has built Sentinel 1, and they will build this one, too, if you give them an opportunity to do that.
The point is, is as you go into this hiring freeze, don't forget to look at the hospitals that are short on Pas, on docs, on RNs, on all the...
If we study, the Chinese are going to eat our lunch.
