We shouldn't make veterans wait for the solution to be implemented.

I have an increasing worry that Secretary McDonald and you are getting bad advice from some of those around you within VA's bureaucracy.

If there are real and reasonable roadblocks to implementation, we need to know what they are and how to fix them.

I would encourage the secretary to quickly define detailed execution plans for these concepts and not get stuck in analysis and processes.

VA's entrenched bureaucracy must be shaken up in order for any true reform--reform that is so desperately needed to better serve our veterans--to succeed.

We must develop a well-defined idea on how the entire country, government, industry, nonprofits, foundations, communities, and individuals, will meet this obligation to our veterans.

VA needs to become a veteran-focused, customer service organization.

I do not need any more evidence or analysis that there is no doubt in my mind that veterans were harmed by the scheduling practices and culture at the Phoenix facility and across the Nation.

It is absolutely imperative that the OIG's independence and integrity in its investigations be preserved.

I want every veteran in this country to say this is my VA and I am proud of it.

if not you, who? If not us, who then? And if not now, when is this ever going happen?

I realize that you have that many employees, but when you said that 'we discussed the report,' I am sure you didn't discuss that report with the 300,000 employees, so I was just trying to narrow down the 'we' that you were talking about.

The bottom line is this behavior and the detrimental effect of veterans is simply not acceptable.

we have to partner with medical schools as we have already talked, we have to partner in the private sector, we have to partner with members of Congress.

We need serious, deep, and broad reform, that kind of change that may be uncomfortable for some in VA, but so desperately needed by America's veterans.

I think we need to have a standardized system of healthcare that we can consistently provide quality healthcare to all of the veterans.

I applaud Secretary McDonald for taking forceful action to begin to address the systematic failures demonstrated in Phoenix.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I urge my colleagues to support this legislation. As you heard, this legislation would allow the town of Tremont, Maine, to continue to use public land that has been continuously maintained for more than…

At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer).

At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Takano).

I have no further speakers, and I am ready to close. Mr. Speaker, I would urge my colleagues to support the conference report to H.R. 3230. This is a very important bill. It is a bill that we have worked long and hard over the last several…

How much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maine has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Florida has 1 minute remaining.

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I want to know are you taking care of the veterans. The outcome is so critical.