Solutions are needed to address these significant infrastructure and capacity needs so that veterans do not continue to wait for their care.

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

So we have an increase in personnel, a dramatic increase in personnel.

PTSD was not included in the initial plan for the hospital.

Who can answer this question, how long have you known--I mean, literally, you have had to have known for years...

I guess I can understand how this project got in the condition that it is.

As part of the negotiations to get the $1 billion, those had to be scrapped and now we are going to get them put back in.

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

But you knew that was not correct, that the project at that time, given all the change orders, could not be built for that amount.

For the record, I want to know why PTSD was taken out of the initial plan of the hospital.

Okay. So we have 20 veterans committing suicide on a daily basis in the United States.

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I wouldn't want them concerned about a patient--the patient safety issues. We have to clean them up for our veterans.

I think we probably have a little further to go with that.

Let's have a little bit of vision here and let's be good stewards of real estate assets that are owned by taxpayers.

The economic development that has occurred since those closures is greater than what we had received when those bases were operational.

It makes no sense that VA keeps a luxury hotel in Paris on its books.

The lesson? Once you let go of control of our government resources, they are no longer under our control.

Our job, on my opinion here, first and foremost, like has already been said, is to make sure we take care of our moral obligation to our veterans.

the VA is not capable of appropriately maintaining this location while meeting the congressional intent of the 1991 legislation.

I want to get the VA out of the luxury hotel management business.

We cannot support legislation that would sell an American monument to a private company, thereby losing an American historical monument.

I wholly support the getting out of the Parisian hotel, boutique hotel business, because we have limited resources.