$31,977.65 as opposed to a $1.7 million cost per detainee at GTMO--a colossal waste of money and an example of backward priorities.

I know we had spoken--I am not sure during which meeting or conversation we spoke about this--but that there has been an ongoing concern over whether interoperability would extend to the private sector.

community care spending will have increased by 49 percent.

I was surprised to see that after 6 straight years of requesting a BRAC... the Administration chose not to do so for fiscal year 2019.

What is it that you are doing to make sure that this key component of our defense infrastructure, which is energy resiliency is a high priority?

a facility that should be closed.

You have to know where you are taking the money from in order to know how much you are going to have.

Merging these accounts is going to hinder our oversight of non-VA care.

There are far higher MILCON priorities for which we could use that funding, some which I just described.

These brave men and women deserve decent shelter, and I fear that we are not always providing that.

To me, that signals--which won't even be ready until 2022--that you are ramping up operations there.

Just piggybacking on the chairman's question on the EHR process, what is a little troubling to me...

Really, in short, they just don't make them like Charlie Dent that much anymore, and you are going to be missed.

I am deeply concerned that this is a, you know, snowball rolling faster and faster down the hill, and appears to be moving in the direction of privatization.

I agree with you on the electronic health records concerns. No question.

Why do we have a higher responsibility to the bad dudes at GTMO than we do to our military service members who are protecting our country?

I urge the subcommittee to provide strong consideration on the request for perimeter fence as submitted to Congress by the secretary of the Air Force.

That facility would be built for 41 people at best.

Other than defense, I am pretty sure that there is no other Federal agency that has fared better than the VA while we functioned under the budget caps.

the more and more resources that go into private community care and the less of an increase that we are focused on in VA care, the longer it takes us

The chairman and I just had an opportunity to go down to Puerto Rico to look at the impact that Hurricane Maria and Irma have had on the military facilities there.

almost every veteran I have ever spoken to... their preference is to go to the VA.

It looks like, honestly, a backdoor privatization effort.

But does your Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee plan to look into this issue?

I live in Broward County, Florida, where the Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooting tragedy took place nearly 2 weeks ago. I am here to talk about our teachers and other public sector employees, but I want to take a moment to make sure…