you will never change the culture of bureaucratic incompetence in the VA unless you are willing to look through those 400 positions.

you need to come before the Congress of the United States to have those altered.

This President will fail the country in terms of the commitments that he made to change the VA.

I thank the gentleman from Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Babin).

I thank the gentleman for those remarks. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King).

I want to thank everyone who came here. I appreciate their great comments. Thousands of years ago, Isaiah said: ``The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.'' Civilizations have come and gone; people have…

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I thank the gentleman from Georgia for his contribution to tonight's Special Order. He mentioned a passage that was also referenced by Ronald Reagan, and let me highlight that with you, because throughout American history, many of our…

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I thank the gentleman for his work on that important and vital piece of legislation. I would now like to yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert).

I thank the gentleman for his remarks and his words. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Loudermilk).

I thank the gentleman from Texas for his words. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Grothman).

I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin for his remarks on Deuteronomy which contains, among others, the passages, the reciting of the Ten Commandments. I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Budd).

I thank the gentleman for his remarks. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Jody B. Hice).

I would like to inquire from the Speaker how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Smucker). The gentleman from Colorado has 30 seconds remaining.

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this administration, the Trump administration, promised to clean up the culture of bureaucratic incompetence inside the VA. And based on this testimony today and other hearings we've had, I don't think they've made a lick of difference.