The VA and Congress must work together to end this culture of fear and retaliation.

Thank you Mr. Chairman. This afternoon, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is holding a follow-up hearing.

I want to address my remarks to Ms. Flanz and Ms. Lerner, but I do want to thank the whistleblowers for bringing your individual cases.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you to our witnesses for being with us today.

It takes real courage to put your careers at risk for coming forward and calling attention to these problems and concerns.

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if you want to actually change the culture, you have to change the view, not just it is the first step that we will take care of whistleblowers and treat them fairly, but that something will actually happen to those employees who enter…

For the record, I would like to make a request that the members of this committee receive a copy of that audit in April 2015 when that becomes available.

on April 1st, the President declared a national emergency to deal with malicious foreign cyber activities, and authorized sanctions against anyone who uses cyber activities to threaten our national security, foreign policy, financial…

The downward ramps for both the Marine Corps (20,000 in 2 years) and Army (47,000 in 4 years) are very steep.

To what extent will global conditions have to change for the worse in order to trigger a reassessment of the proposed force structure reductions?

My understanding is there were a class of workers who did in fact get their wages raised.

Thank you for being here and for your service.

I just want to be reassured that the operating costs to begin enrolling students on the target date of this July are in fact in the budget.

I understand there are aggressive deadlines for implementing the Act that require competitive bidding to operate the one stop career centers.

I wonder is it common practice for DOL to change rate classification in the middle of a construction project like that, and then to backdate the contract?

I very much appreciate that and look forward to your coming up for the ribbon cutting.