Do you think it would be more effective and efficient to try and develop a electronic health records system?

It is clear that the BLM has turned into a climate activist organization under this Administration.

Changing the BLM's multiple-use mandate without the proper input from Congress as well as state and county governments is an unprecedented power grab.

I think it is important to hear from the communities.

And if we put the ranchers out of business, what happens to the local automobile dealership, the grocery store? What happens to those businesses?

Maybe we should actually be talking to the farmers that have a plow instead of the people that are using a pencil and finding out exactly which components are missing and maybe we could introduce those into the VistA system and we could…

Unfortunately, Director Stone-Manning and Secretary Haaland have refused to hold hearings in the communities most impacted by this rule.

American veterans and taxpayers are rightfully outraged when they read about billions of dollars being paid out year after year with nothing to show for it, to an industry that always seems to be recession proof.

to think that we have a system that was developed in the eighties that is basically the primary system that we are using for electronic health records, and yet we are spending billions of dollars with another contractor, with another…

The very prescription drug issue that you spoke of earlier, Ms. Schank, it is my understanding that that is one of the main components that we were having problems with, the Oracle system, that the pharmacies within these veterans…

Again, we continue to go back to the intent, and the intent is to utilize the economies of scale.

Government contracting is supposed to be a level playing field. However, the VA's become a notoriously difficult, arbitrary client.

The fact that BLM had only a 75-day comment period for this rule shows that they are not serious about receiving public input.

The BLM claims that this proposed rule will not have an economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, and thus is not subject to review under the RFA. Do you disagree? And if so, how will small entities be affected…

The COVID-19 pandemic has long been over. President Biden even recognized this reality by signing H.J. Res. 7, which terminates the national emergency declaration.

I had a whole line of questioning here regarding the blatant lies that you put out in your press release on the Veterans Affairs website.

His condemnation of the way that you put that information out and the way that you have left it out there scaring veterans is an embarrassment, quite frankly.

I have said many times that Congress needs to take its cues from the veterans.