This whole idea of the blue button, where individuals can get their own electronic health record, would be enormously beneficial if it was actually seamlessly reduced to practice.

I think we really need to get this right to make sure that we do not regulate the insurance companies like banks, which could put our insurance industry at a serious competitive disadvantage.

I rise to speak on amendment No. 273. It stands for the principle that freedom on the Internet is not the freedom to enslave others. I want to make sure this country stands for the principles under the 13th Amendment that we enshrined with…

I would add to your list of things that were done wrong in Denver is you did not have the Army Corps of Engineers overseeing the construction of the facility.

I want to make sure we do not wipe out the Choice Act money for the overrun in Denver, that we stand by our veterans there.

I, too, want to thank you for working with many of us on the 40-mile rule to change it from as the crow flies to actual driving distance.

I want to make sure that kind of thing never happens to our veterans, that we have confident, strong, administration of our people.

if they insist on having different standards, we will go with just the VA standards, that will force the two bureaucracies to agree on a common standard, and it will be a VA standard.

Let me add on, with the drug, we would not need a liver transplant.

If we are giving totally incompetent people big bonuses like that, how can we ever take care of our veterans.

I want to make sure this continued process of nailing whistleblowers is wiped out in the VA.

I would say that your proposal has been to take $1 billion from the Choice Act to sink into this thing, and that would eliminate about 20 percent of the Care Act money.

If the Senator would yield, let me just add I would associate my comments with Senator Baldwin, because a lot of Illinois veterans would use the Tomah facility. We want to make sure we fix the candy store, it was called.

With that $1.73 billion, Denver Hospital will take up so much money, funding for MILCON for our missile defense for 7.9 years, it would also take up 4 years of MILCON for Special Operations.

I will make it simple for you, my position is Cory Gardner's position, to make sure that you work very closely with Senator Gardner.

I would say finish constructing the medical complex under the supervision of the Army Corps of Engineers.

VA is hearing directly from veterans and their representatives that they would prefer to get their care in VA facilities from the medical professionals they know and with whom they have relationships.

I think we may have to look at the subcommittee possibly mandating that mission to address the Denver problem.

If President Putin calls and orders our President to pull the plug on this project in Poland, what would you do?

I was hoping you were going to say they could have the total quad of situational awareness and a complex evolution of a SOCOM operation.

This subcommittee is really wrestling with the incredible overrun at the Denver VA Hospital.

As a Navy guy, I would like to say this to all my Marine Corps' friends, thank you for your support for the Department of the Navy.

Let me follow up and ask General Clark, I could not get a good handle around your expansion of the Bragg facility. What does that give the Nation?

I would like to get the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?