In balance and fairness, Congressman Coffman, our first request of this committee is to take the views of performing subcontractors in proper balance with the views of nonperformin...
The hardships that veterans in Colorado have incurred due to the lack of an adequate VA Medical Center is wrong.
Behind schedule means that the veterans of Colorado and the veterans of America are not getting the health care that they need.
Do you think in any way that the slowness of the change order process is calculated to mask the true cost of the project?
Is that simply incompetence from a bureaucratic standpoint? Or is that calculated to mask the true cost of this hospital?
I remain unconvinced that VA can fix these problems without outside intervention, so I encourage my colleagues to support our bipartisan bil...
I just think that the mission of the VA is really to provide health care benefits to those who have served this country.
What is concerning to me is the extraordinary length of time that it is taking to do these change orders.
I think it is more that it is an outdated facility that doesn't have the capability to handle the load that is coming down the pike.
Clearly, the VA is not a construction entity. It is not your core competency.
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 ...