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Hopefully the President is just blowing off steam again but if he's even half serious, this is nuts.

I think it's very alarming. I think it's--the next December 7 won't be airplanes with torpedos coming at Pearl Harbor. It's going to be triggered with an attack on our energy grid, with rolling blackouts and chaos.

It might be just a pure budgetary constraint, but yet an artificial one that perhaps keeps some people from the quality of care that they deserve.

We have to find the right balance between the movement toward a singular goal which is care for our veterans, not a debate over whether this is going to be public or this is going to be private.

I think it was appropriate to mention as Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz did that you are also ending your service as well.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We are just paying electrical utility bills or it is not meeting its highest and best use.

What that implies is that you have got wasted space sitting out there.

So I think this question of excess inventory perhaps is too broad.

This is a new term: MISC. It stands for miscellaneous military installation savings commission.

So I am proposing this to you all as I have proposed before previous panels for years that we move away from the term because the term causes such indigestion.

Look, we keep doing this--we keep using the--it is now a word, BRAC. Does anybody remember what it means?

Yes, but that is your mandate, 25 percent renewable by 2025.

Well, this is an attempt to move from, again, regulation and litigation to collaboration.

Anything that you can do to expedite this would be helpful.

The great thing about the American public is that we ask for their help when it comes to helping veterans and they step up.

The private-public partnership in Omaha, we hope to have a groundbreaking ceremony in May.

We are getting ready to break ground, based upon the new piece of legislation that was passed just fairly recently on a new ambulatory care center.