this Congress passed and funded the Vet Pain Management Act that people out there still believe is the best way to reduce opium addiction.

I appreciate the visit to my office yesterday, and I particularly was pleased by your continued commitment to work to make Veterans Choice permanent.

I mean, what we also need to investigate is what did he leave with in the last ten days.

I would appreciate if you would provide the Committee as soon as possible--evidence that an investigation occurred long before this comes up before the VA Committee.

And if the upgrade failed, how do you compare the performance between obviously the statutorily authorized programs and these other initiatives that have not been approved by Congress, how are you able to say which ones are actually…

Good morning. Thank you all for being with us today. I call this hearing to order.

So the upgrade that I discussed that had already happened, you abandoned that and are looking at another upgrade, or are trying to actually finish the upgrade; is that correct?

the military and the Veterans' Business Outreach group, they are one of the best organizations, period, about not seeing race, color, sex, or anything else.

I am very disappointed that a year later, you cannot say, hey, this has been taken care of and this is why.

You assured us it has been taken care of, but you cannot tell us what you did with the contractor that failed.

I mean, I assume this is going to show up in a lot of places across this country, and your explanation is we held them accountable how?