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We think VA can help lead this for the whole country by making this interoperable.

I believe that this was essential travel.

We want our benefits to focus on getting Veterans back to independence and well-being.

We cannot continue to do business as usual and think that the VA is a sustainable structure for decades to come.

We cannot continue to do it the same way.

There is no excuse for these past projects, and we cannot continue to do business as usual.

I turned on my morning news one day and I saw that the President had issued an executive order on mental health care.

I do regret the decisions that have been made that have taken the focus off of that important work.

While you have said in the past that these Veterans should not be waiting any longer, that is a quote.

If we were talking about different facilities, that would be one thing. We are talking about spreading the headquarters of the FBI across the United States.

Why is it least costly to spread the agency across five different states?

Why do you want to build this across a number of states in the United States rather than consolidate it?

You don't have to school me on what the FBI does with the Justice Department.

But you have to spend more money if you have to build facilities in states which are far from one another.

How do you reduce the footprint of the FBI by building separate facilities throughout the United States?

I am not sure there are any other principles that stand at that level.

We are putting the Veterans' needs first and the money follows.

As a public institution, we must be transparent about our actions so that the public, through its elected representatives, can hold us accountable.