I am glad we were able to pass it last summer.

I continue to believe that the VA can do more to connect veterans to their VA benefits and their local community support networks during this critical period of such enormous change.

I think most of us watching the multiple crises in Lebanon believe it is teetering on being a failed state.

I am very concerned about the status of those KC-46 units, both the fact that we still don't have all of them flying the way they were commissioned to fly.

I want to know what else we can do.

These aging systems not only increase costs, they can also jeopardize our national security.

I think it is a really important area to focus on and really try to make sure that that is, in fact, how the agency is approaching it.

It could have a really significant, and at times, really dangerous impact, right?

We need more Federal investment, though, to make it stick and to make it work for families, and businesses, and fuel our economy.

I want to know what else we can do.

Thank you for appearing today to discuss the Department of Homeland Security's (DHSs) reliance on aging information technology (IT) systems.

What we are doing so far does not seem to be working very well.

I think it would be great to facilitate this conversation in this meeting. But this is where I think having women in leadership is so critically important for the mission of the VA.

I think it is a message to Boeing to do better in the future as well.

The first job of government is to keep people safe, and I am very grateful that you are working to do that.

I think it would be great to facilitate this conversation in this meeting. But this is where I think having women in leadership is so critically important for the mission of the VA.

I continue to believe that the VA can do more to connect veterans to their VA benefits and their local community support networks during this critical period of such enormous change.

Today's hearing continues our Subcommittee's work to replace aging government technology that wastes taxpayer dollars.