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I hope the VA's prepared to provide that information today at the hearing.

Many of the deficiencies in the IT programs that underlie the VA health care system have already been laid out by Chairman Coffman, and I agree with his comments regarding the urgent nature of the ongoing efforts to modernize the VA…

Right. I completely agree with you, Congressman. When I was running hospitals prior to taking this position, I was participating in functional HIEs. So VA wants to be part of these regional HIEs.

I think there are many, many good things about the VistA system and VistA Evolution, which is the newer sort of what we call eHMP, it's the web-based version; it also has many, many great features.

I'm going to ask you to submit to the chairman within 30 days a date where you--proposed date when you think that WMATA will no longer be put on these kinds of restrictions that keeps it from getting money owed it.

Sir, I asked you a very specific question. My time is running out.

But you've not done short-term borrowing before?

You have so delayed WMATA getting funds due it that it has had to go and do short-term borrowing.

For the first time in its history, this system, Metro, is doing short-term borrowing in order to get operating funds.

The pension liability was pre-home rule liability.

When Metro shuts down, the Federal Government shuts down.

Without Federal assistance--and Eleanor Holmes Norton was the leader on this, and you remember this--without Federal assistance, we would not have made it.

Military efforts alone are insufficient.

The multi-sector programming is vitally important. We have to have these interconnections, and that's exactly what we're trying to do.

We want to make sure that, in fact, what we're trying to do is really leverage our assistance in different ways.

We were not satisfied with the effort that we had going.

We've been doubling and tripling our efforts in a number of ways.

What we are doing, instead, is trying to identify, elevate, and build the capacity of local credible voices.