The acute nature of COVID-19 pandemic highlighted how fragile the Nation supply chain is.

Thank you, Senator Moran for your statement.

But I think the investment in capital still falls short of where it has to be to meet many of these emergencies.

I believe they constitute a national security risk.

Thank you, Senator Moran for your statement.

Again, the surveys are showing that the people are not satisfied with it.

Again, if we are going to invest funds overseas and here domestically, we should make sure that it projects our values. Another grant that received funds through the Fogarty International Center in Ukraine, where we have seen billions of…

How much more would you say that we should begin to have conversations about allocating toward this system?

At this rate of improvement it would take Oracle EHR 15 more years to come up to the level of VistA.

The irony is that the VA already has an EHR platform with more than 99.9 percent uptime. This is like Ivory soap pure, folks.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 67, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $95,162,000)''. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant…

My amendment No. 33 prohibits funding for the John E. Fogarty International Center saving approximately $95 million. Our Nation is over $33 trillion in debt, with an expected annual deficit this year of nearly $2 trillion. We need to find…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds…

Today's hearing should have been unnecessary. The very least we expect from a piece of software is that it runs reliably when we launch it.

If your definitions are not capturing problems with the EHR that are preventing the VA staff from doing their jobs, okay, they are just saying this is not working for me and you do not have a definition to capture that, does that not mean…

Congress has a higher rating than that and it is not really good.

I believe they constitute a national security risk.

I hope the two departments and Oracle can put the blame shifting behind them once and for all and address the problems regardless of who may have created them.