I firmly believe that the VA has to focus on its core mission, and its core mission is delivering health care benefits and delivering claims processing and other benefits to the me...
you cannot be trusted, as I have said before, to build a lemonade stand, let alone a major hospital
The core function of VA is the delivery of health care and benefits. They are clearly not a construction entity.
There is got to be an outside investigation. VA cannot be entrusted to do their own investigation.
your core responsibilities are to deliver health care benefits and other benefits that our veterans have earned
We were lied to. We were lied to again and again and again.
They must be stripped of their management construction authority on major construction projects going forward.
I could not be more offended by what has occurred by the leadership of the Veterans Administration on building this project.
The VA has a systemic pattern of failures.
The number has to be increased.
The threshold that I use in the legislation is the major construction and we leave VA to do the minor below the $10 million.