Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is my privilege to introduce my fellow Kansan, Mike Bergmeier.

I was a vocational teacher and general ed teacher before I came.

It is important that taxpayer dollars appropriated to VA are properly spent on providing the care and benefits our veterans have earned, not sending VA employees abroad on taxpayer subsidized vacations that do little to improve the care…

I believe providing Congress information about foreign travel by VA employees is not an unreasonable requirement.

I reiterated in my questioning during your testimony, if you could please communicate with the appropriate individual my request for answers to the letters I sent to the Department of Veteran Affairs on September 23, 2012 and October 3…

As I always say, the more that we can do to support the IG, the better government we get out of it.

I have a lot of words to describe my feelings, and embarrassed by the actions or lack thereof by the VA might be one of those.

VA's security posture was never at risk.

Can you explain how you merit such a large amount in bonuses?

I believe 23 questions. I've been waiting for 264 days for your agency to respond.

So how you did was worthy of $87,000 in bonuses? Is that your understanding?