These individuals should not be simply taken out of the chain of command for VA construction, they should be fired.
I question whether the VA should conduct its own major construction at all.
I think the bill is necessary to direct the office and the VA chief acquisition officer to do what they should have been doing all along.
This is simply outrageous and could very well make the hospital the most expensive in our nation's history.
Today we will address H.R. 571, the Veterans Affairs Retaliation Prevention Act of 2015.
Each major construction project is hundreds of millions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. That is a problem.
I think that is just characteristic of your glossing over the extraordinary problems confronted by your department.
For you to say that you are going to the Army Corps of Engineers to advise you as to how to correct the extraordinary problems, let me tell ...
The fundamental challenge is for this organization to reflect your values and I am not sure that that is going to happen.
I must be kind of simple, because I am looking at this bird sanctuary on this property...
It is going to take until October of this year to find out that you are in violation of the law when you are already in violation of the law...