Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to continue to follow up on my first line of questioning and ask some more questions that the families have asked.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Now is not the time to eliminate the GAO review.

Veterans deserve better from us.

Once more, political calculations having nothing to do with our veterans are putting our collective support for funding for their benefits and services at risk.

Putting Veterans Funding First would end the uncertainty by ensuring VA has its full discretionary appropriation well before its fiscal year begins.

Allowing this GAO review to sunset puts veterans' health care in jeopardy. We cannot take that risk.

I think we would all agree that our veterans deserve better than this.

I thank my colleagues who have already supported the bill, and ask those who haven't to join us in truly Putting Veterans' Funding First.

Before we budget and appropriate dollars, we must plan and program.

We owe it to our current and future veterans to ensure the VA never again runs low on resources to provide health care to our veterans.