Mike Coffman

So I think the simple answer would be you are not compliant at this point in time.

Well we had a lot of those definitions in progress last night before the full committee and it is disconcerting.

If my information was accessible to the VA doctors when I first met them, rather than asking me about the surgeries I had...

I expect the VA to use the discussions and issues heard today to improve upon services provided to our veterans.

So what happens if they are working with the VA and they lose their license, their state license?

I think it is hard for a doctor or a clinician to say that someone has plateaued when that warrior inside knows they have not plateaued.

Mr. Hazell, thank you so much for your service to the United States Marine Corps, to this country.

I think the testimony today clearly states that there is a problem, and it needs to be resolved.

In light of this reduction, how will VA ensure that veterans with TBI receive quality care and are not short-changed as they live with their disabilities?

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The delays and cost overruns plaguing this project are deeply disturbing and represent a disservice to our nation's veterans and the American taxpayer.

That is why the VFW supports Chairman Coffman's bill, HR. 3593, the 'VA Construction Assistance Act of 2013.'

Are there smaller employers, either one of you, that may very well go under as a result of this mismanagement, in terms of the change order process?

Clearly, the VA is not a construction entity. It is not your core competency.

Congressman Coffman's proposal to remove the oversight of construction from where it sits today and move it into the Army Corps of Engineers.

I think it is more that it is an outdated facility that doesn't have the capability to handle the load that is coming down the pike.

I remain unconvinced that VA can fix these problems without outside intervention, so I encourage my colleagues to support our bipartisan bill, H.R. 3593, the VA Construction Assistance Act.

What is concerning to me is the extraordinary length of time that it is taking to do these change orders.

I just think that the mission of the VA is really to provide health care benefits to those who have served this country.

Is that simply incompetence from a bureaucratic standpoint? Or is that calculated to mask the true cost of this hospital?

Do you think in any way that the slowness of the change order process is calculated to mask the true cost of the project?

It is our sincere request that we can count on this committee's continued leadership, and the subcontracting committee in the House Small Business Committee, to correct a longstanding and harmful bias we believe stems from greater…

Behind schedule means that the veterans of Colorado and the veterans of America are not getting the health care that they need.