Thank you, and thank you, Chairman Bergman, for coming to New Hampshire and making the trip.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, it is their experience that counts.

To protect their confidentiality.

If we had the appropriate processes in place, we shouldn't be so reliant on whistleblowers.

What actions are supervisors and clinicians required to immediately take upon discovery of training deficiencies and to ensure patient safety and quality of care in these instances?

Veterans must be able to trust that the VA will provide them with the best quality of care.

We have to continue to work together to get to the bottom of these issues and to make sure that our veterans get the high-quality care that they deserve.

That is totally unacceptable, and I just hope you will continue to look into that in particular.

I have joined with a bipartisan group of colleagues in introducing the Deborah Sampson Act to address gender disparities at the VA.

I hope that you agree that the whistleblowers have done a service to veterans in New Hampshire and across the country by coming forward with the concerns that they have raised.

I believe very strongly that the Federal Government has a contract with those who have served in uniform.

How can we ask our community hospitals to step up and care for our veterans when they are owed $3 million?

I have long felt that what we need in New Hampshire is a full-service VA hospital.

As Congress considers reauthorization of the Choice program, we need to look very closely at how we can make that program work better.

I want our women veterans out there to know that these hires have been made and that there are services accessible to them.

All of us here today are outraged by the poor conditions and quality of care that were alleged by whistleblowers.

I also continue to support a full-service VA hospital in New Hampshire.

I would urge you to think about the fact that if part of the concerns that have been raised is that the records themselves do not accurately reflect the care or the symptoms or the range of possible clinical diagnoses, that just doing a…