So retirement basically protects that employee from--shields that employee from being accountable.
Thank you. Walk me through the timeline regarding when the VA knew there was a problem and when patients were contacted.
How could what happened in Dayton over the last 18 years not have been ferreted out?
Tell me who 'they' is.
I would assure--and while this is a hearing, I will for a moment speak to the audience--I would assure anyone in this ce...
Instead of embracing this relationship and working together to solve an obvious problem, the VA has very lethargically a...
I believe that the VA is acting more as an obstacle than they are of help to resolve this.
So none of these were Dayton----
I know I personally wish I could meet every single one of them and apologize for what happened over the course of these ...
I am sure you have.
It seems to me that we need to know more.
This is an official hearing of the U.S. Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, an official hearing even though it is not in...
The importance of what you are doing here today is that you are not just sitting here as the Senator from Ohio, concerne...
Maybe not a culture of recklessness, but morale was an issue.
Thank you, Dr. Daigh.
It was theoretical because--was there no real sense of urgency among this board?
Should I walk out of here today, when I meet with a VFW group or a Legion group or a Vietnam Veterans group and they ask...
Thank you for being here. We will address, I hope, all of those concerns that you brought up today.