Julia Brownley: “I wanted to drill down a little bit with you on this issue of institutional versus home or community-based services.”

It is with a heavy heart that I come before this body to remember the 12 innocent lives lost 5 years ago today at Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California. Our community was forever changed by this tragedy inflicted by the…

The problem area that I see is one has to seek that information out.

It is just I feel as though we have given--this committee has given the VA a lot of tools and sometimes those tools are underutilized to get to the goals that we are trying to get to.

I would just say that, yes, I want to be competitive with China's military and their readiness first and foremost. Second, our DOD officials are talking about the future. They are not talking about today. They are talking about…