Charles Boustany: “It is great to see you here today, and we appreciate the tremendous work you all are doing to reform this complex system…”

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

I have no other Members wishing to speak on the bill, and I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

We are seeing the costs going up. And of course what the President is proposing is higher taxpayer liability.