Debbie Wasserman Schultz

And lastly, are you also just balancing, you know, managing clinician buy-in, which, you know, obviously you need to get, with their interest in optimization and specifications for their specific needs?

I mean, you can have the best system, but if you do not have clinician buy-in, we are still going to have a problem with adoption.

How are you working to restore users' trust with the system?

But users' dissatisfaction is not a new issue.

So GAO recently came out in March of this year on change management challenges, user satisfaction, and included system issues.

I feel that urgency.

We don't want to stay in reset forever.

So and they are making progress on that, but when are we coming out of the reset?

I am talking about discernable metrics that are going to determine whether you are meeting goals or not meeting goals so that we can get out of reset and go forward with implementation.

We can't be in the reset for years.

Okay. Do you have metrics that will measure whether you're meeting those goals? Because frankly, you are speaking in very broad rosy, you know, summarizing terms.

The Electronic Health Record Modernization Program, this version of it, officially started in 2018.

The fiscal year 2024 budget request has $220 million for three military housing privatization initiative restructures.

Even worse than insufficient budget requests, Republican proposals to cut back spending levels to 2022 would devastate the progress we have made these past 4 years.

It is unacceptable for anyone, especially our servicemembers and their families, to be living in mold, lead, or rodent-infested dilapidated housing.

It is unacceptable that we are trying to put the taxpayers on the hook for something that these private companies should be responsible for.

It is disgusting. Have you been through any of those housing facilities?

We don't step in and have the taxpayers pay for it.

But we are having taxpayer--we are asking for taxpayer dollars to do what they should have?

It is frustrating, especially as we embark on travel to go see our military infrastructure around the world, and we talk with frustrated military servicemembers who show us decrepit, aging, unsafe infrastructure that they have to try to…

As Ted said, sexual assault has absolutely no place in the United States Navy.

If you have a process that you design to ensure that people, that we can really get a handle on this problem but your servicemembers don't have trust in it, then it is useless.

That absolutely disastrous cut would slow the pace of new construction of housing and would prolong instances of costly or inadequate housing for military families.

And finally, I would like an update on Navy and Marine Corps efforts to prevent sexual assaults and improve trust in the reporting system.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses on the progress that has been made towards improving access to mental health resources for our Sailors and Marines.