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Well, first of all, I have already indicated my strong support for allowing us to be able to access a non-veteran donor.

Your bill I think hits exactly what we want to do.

We greatly appreciate the Committee including the Administration's proposal for comprehensive improvements to the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Community Care program, the Veteran Coordinated Access & Rewarding Experiences (CARE)…

I created this task force by carefully selecting each of these outstanding individuals who helped to develop and determine what the best possible pilot program for MST survivors should look like.

We need to do that, and we are doing that with the Department of Defense and other Federal agencies.

I would assure your constituents, your veterans that that is our focus, strengthen the VA, but at the same time make sure that veterans aren't waiting while we are strengthening the VA.

What we learned is, is that VA needs to take back customer service, you can't outsource that.

This is about building a VA that veterans choose for their care. We want veterans to choose VA.

There is no doubt, our Vietnam veterans have waited way too long for us to bring this to resolution.

I tell people we have the best leadership and the best Committees in both the House and the Congress anywhere.

VA must take back customer service.

Nobody should feel trapped in the VA system.

We believe that this program, compared to continuing Choice and Community Care Programs as they are, will actually be billions of dollars less over 10 years.

We need top-quality health care professionals to deliver excellent care and it is a very competitive market.

We need Congress to pass this legislation before December, as you said, Mr. Chairman, to avoid the program running out of money in the Choice Program.

What I value so much, Mr. Chairman, is that you have opened up for us the notion of these task forces that we knew nothing about.

We're not questioning the legality of the task forces.

But Diane is right. Once--but it could have been done without an executive order, so that's one thing, so you would know it's going to be internal people.