Jim Banks

VA needed a modern scheduling system years ago; how can we say 2025 is an acceleration?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I need to see a lot more before I can put my confidence in this plan.

I disagree with the decision to select Columbus, Ohio, where the EPIC scheduling system was installed as a pilot.

The appointment scheduling system is the VA IT system most badly in need of an overhaul.

There seems to be an assumption that everything known about EPIC is also true about Cerner.

It has been almost 12 months since we reached a new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. Both Mexico and Canada promptly ratified the agreement, but the House majority party refuses to let us vote on it. While it is a multinational…

Okay. How many of the VistA-to-Cerner interfaces have been completed now and when is the deadline to complete all of them?

All right. Dr. O'Toole, really quick, what is VHA's expectation for the Cerner data from the early sites coming back into VistA at the later sites?

Is there ever going to be a business case demonstrating savings even over the very long term or is that just unrealistic?

What is the deadline to determine which VistA modules get replaced by which Cerner's software package or other companies' software, and which VistA modules have you yet to determine a plan for?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Do you stand by the VistA cost information that VA gave to GAO?

It is no longer possible to talk about VistA without discussing Cerner and vice versa.

This is a historic day. We have finally found a tax that Members and my friends on both sides of the aisle agree needs to be cut. I am proud to be a cosponsor of today's legislation, and I am excited that many of my colleagues on the other…

H.R. 561 would ensure that veteran owned small businesses and service disabled veteran owned small businesses actually receive the VA contracts set aside for them by the VA Vets First program.

This is the first of many steps to address these challenges, but a step worthy of bipartisan support on behalf of our military families.

We want to make sure that the VA is armed and ready to promote good behavior, but also to make sure that bad behavior is appropriately punished.

As you can imagine, I am very proud of that piece of legislation that I was a part of writing and seeing it passed through the State legislature in my home State.

As the Indiana State senator in 2013 I wrote legislation that was signed into law by then governor Mike Pence to establish a principal leadership institute at Indiana State University.

I think all of us agree that military spouses shoulder an enormous burden on behalf of our Nation.

These improper pass throughs have long been prohibited by law, but they occur throughout the Federal government, and especially in recent years seem to plague the VA.

I am proud to have worked closely with my colleagues, Representative Kuster of New Hampshire, Representative Dunn of Florida, and Representative Pappas of New Hampshire on this legislation.

If this unanimous consent request cannot be entertained, I urge the Speaker and the Majority Leader to immediately schedule the Born-Alive bill so we can stand up and protect the sanctity of human life, and I would ask all others to join…

I was proud to serve my country in uniform in Afghanistan, and now I am proud to serve in this Congress. I am proud to serve in a new and different way on what has historically been the most bipartisan committee, the House Armed Services…