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If cost-cutting were the legitimate concern of departmental management, why did it needlessly purchase brandnew 9m handguns this year when it had already purchased .40 caliber handguns no more than 3 years ago.
It is the best argument I have ever heard for collective bargaining, that if, in fact, workers sit down with industry, and can engage in collective bargaining, then I would feel that we are not the last chance for safety.
You do have a problem. And not only that, let me ask you this. The FRA is now working to preempt State and local laws that seek to implement the two-person rule. Why are you doing that?
Well, so why in 2016 did the FRA say it 'has studies showing the benefits of a second crewmember'?
The FRA itself--I am pointing to a 2016 study--it said--has studies showing the benefits of a second crewmember, and other information detailing potential safety benefits of multiperson crews.
I want to pick up on Mr. Lynch's statement, because this notion of the two-man crews, or two-person crews, has been going back and forth in this committee for a very long time.
I would hope in the future to receive what Mr. Missal said was not immediate corrective action.
Congress will not stand for continued failures that threaten the health and safety of our veterans at what ought to be the VA's flagship medical center.
I appreciate, Mr. Missal, that you were willing to depart from your usual processes in order to alert the VA.
When you got that kind--Ms. Czarnecki, when you get that kind of unusual--you heard Mr. Missal say unusual warning, why wouldn't the VA get on it instantly to try to essentially, perhaps, save lives for the veterans who were using the…
This clinic is decrepit in more ways than one.
We just don't want people to be left with no place to go.
Now, I just have to ask you, where are these veterans from the District of Columbia supposed to receive their care?
I'd like to get some information. Your outpatient clinic, the only clinic for our veterans here in the District of Columbia for medical and preventive care, is about to close.
I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the visit you and I made to this center so we could see firsthand what the complaints were about.
I just want to, and I think I stated this in my written testimony, that there is a caveat about treating American Samoa, in particular, like a State.
We cannot fix the FMAP and not also fix the cap, because what will happen is, if you only fix the FMAP, all that means is we will spend our Federal dollars faster and we will exhaust them.
The first thing we will do is we will suspend all of the new services that we recently added and was approved by CMS 2 years ago.