I don't understand why Members of Congress want to trash the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It is the one glue that holds our military together.

I think one of the things that I would like to see, Mr. Chairman, is that we take the time to make sure that everyone is being treated fairly in the military.

Forty percent of my senior official cases are caught up in reprisal because they basically have held somebody accountable.

Senior leader misconduct is an extraordinarily important issue, and I want to thank the witnesses for their candor.

So, effectively, if somebody got a letter of admonition, forced to retire, reduced in rank in that retirement, it is literally the equivalent of a fine of hundreds of thousands of dollars, am I correct?

It is somewhat a little bit offensive to suggest that the institution is unprofessional or somehow broken because it discovers its own problems.

There have been a number of Members who have resigned or are retiring as a result of sexual harassment, not sexual assault, here.

If we could get some help in that particular area, that would help on the resource piece as well.

We have a huge problem in our academies, and I think we have a huge problem in our services.

We want to have is a system that we--apparently we do not have right now--where we can expeditious--more expeditiously discipline officers in substantiated cases.

So it is a career killer. So that person is not going to get promoted.

I want to try to zero in here on the questions about what your plan is now to make sure that after the taxpayers have spent $1.6 billion that veterans in Colorado won't have longer wait times.

It was certainly clear on the PTSD issue, but not on the PACT team issue, and I am just surprised that there is no definitive plan in the works, because it is going to be very, very expensive to keep this old hospital open.

I mean, that absolutely makes no sense.

I led the fight to strip the VA of their construction management authority.

The fact that Ms. Fiotes is here today... is a signal to me that the VA has not changed.

It is important we apply these lessons we have learned from this project and apply them to the Army Corps' model for project management to future VA super construction projects.

Now it finally appears Colorado veterans will have the state of the art facility that they deserve.

This project I think is an affront to the veterans who have made tremendous sacrifices in defense of our country in not getting the kind of state-of-the-art care, given the fact that this hospital is so late in terms of its schedule, and…

we need to--and myself--put the care where the veterans are, not make them come...

My greatest concern is whether VA has the infrastructure in place to meet the needs of veterans in Colorado and its neighboring states.

So, all in all, it may actually work out as a positive.

I am very disappointed, you know, President Trump ran on the fact that he was going to clean up the Veterans Administration.

I disagree with that.

I am just absolutely amazed at your lack of professionalism in not understanding the origins of this project.