Charles Boustany: “We still do, but I'll say this: I'll miss having you here, and I look forward to keeping in touch in the future.”

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 13, strike ``; and'' and insert a semicolon. Page 3, line 15, strike the period at the end and…

I believe it is of vital importance to seek solutions to the problem of delayed payments for veterans' medical care.

This is an absolutely essential amendment because we need more transparency about methods and how these assumptions are built into what they are proposing. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Loudermilk).

I think that is a pretty tacit admission that the market is failing.