Mike Coffman: “I was able to pass legislation out of this Committee to mandate that the VA provide mental health care to those with…”

The fact is, GEO is not cooperative, and so we have an incident here. There could be other incidents down the road.

I would also like to thank the members of the Subcommittee who co-sponsored H.R. 4635 - Rep Bilirakis, Rep Radewagen, Rep O'Rourke, Rep Rutherford, and Rep Gonzalez-Colon.

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.

It was very hard to get answers from the VA, because they didn't want to admit that they had made a mistake.