Some government health care entities and some academic health care entities are world-class, best in show providers. But some are not.

Well, can't the appointment be made right at the time that the patient is referred, right there so the patient can participate?

I am concerned that the tiered network the VA has proposed will hold government and academic affiliate providers to a different, perhaps a less stringent, standard than private sector providers will be held to.

is a veteran going to be able to call and get an appointment for themself?

Like most patients, I would say.

I thank Representative Rothfus for setting up this time so we can draw attention to this case of the Little Sisters of the Poor and for his eloquent defense of the right to life. I am here today to also support the Little Sisters of the…

I think that you really need to work on that issue, because many of the physicians are very frustrated with it in the VA.

providing a top-notch health care and benefits that our Nation's veterans deserve is impossible without an equally top-notch workforce.

As a lifelong resident of Northern Michigan, I know how important it is to protect and conserve our precious natural resources. Northern Michigan's economy depends on our Great Lakes and outdoor spaces for tourism, agriculture, and…

I applaud the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delisting the gray wolf in the Great Lakes states and Wyoming.

I think that there is a position here that we do not understand why we are acquiring more land when we have a backlog of just maintaining the land?

I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin for this amendment and the time. I rise today in support of this amendment for the SHARE Act. This amendment directs the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reissue a rule to delist the gray wolf in…

The gray wolf was recovered in the Great Lakes and ready for delisting and State management. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.

I think we should manage the land you have instead of acquiring more.

I agree with you on the emergency fire spending. That is a problem we have to fix.

There is too big of a project. There is not enough smaller projects so that the average logger in the area can actually do the project.

The question is, so is there somewhere in your plan that will allow a veteran to make a single phone call and find out?

I reiterate or echo your feelings about this third-party administration thing and I realize that there was an urgency in getting the Choice started.

I think that goes back to both the fault of the VA and the Congress. We should have done a better job of putting it out there with bullet points.

I am not sure that requires congressional action, I think it may be more of a bureaucratic solution.

I am afraid we and the VA, especially on cost, is looking through the soda straw and not the overall picture.

I appreciate you all being here today. You know, my concern, I think everyone's concern here is that the veteran get care.

I understand your thoughts, but specifically how are you going to get the VA to be assured that they are going to be paid?

Once in, you are in. That should be fairly simple.

But nobody is actually prosecuted for this kind of thing, it doesn't sound like.