Matt Rosendale

I think this is an idea whose time has come. We can use IT to make veterans' benefits more timely, accurate, and consistent.

The VA should not be hassling ailing veterans for the VA's own errors.

Veterans support this legislation. That is what we are concerned with.

To try and turn back the clocks of time, and not give us the tools that are available to make sure that the veterans get the benefits that they deserve, and the healthcare, the highest quality healthcare that they have earned, is…

Well, we will spend the next several years getting rid of the bad apples, and that is going to create a big backlog.

Do you believe that passage of 4278 will help us rebuild that team environment, that you are talking about and help rebuild that trust?

How many veterans do we not have in the VA system that has earned that right, just because of a bad experience with a bad employee.

Do not tell me that you are doing enough with the previous legislation. You are putting veterans' health at risk.

I was very proud to cosponsor Chairman Bost's Restore the VA Accountability Act.

The simple mandates that have been placed on our electricity producers so that they have to fill their portfolios with a certain amount of renewable energy has made it difficult for them to continue to rely on the dependable baseload…

I, again, still do not understand when you say that they are larger institutions, we have to go through the conversions, we have to go through the startup, how that is going to cost less than the much, much smaller organizations that we…

It is inexcusable and downright irresponsible for the Department to be managing that much money with an accounting system that is barely functioning.

Some of this stuff is just personal responsibility.

I am just having a really difficult time reconciling this because you are telling me you have estimates.

I agree with that and this is exactly the concern that I have, okay.

Do you believe it is sufficient to drive accountability when they look at this contract?

FMBT is the VA's third attempt to modernize its hodgepodge of aging inadequate financial and accounting systems.

How much of the $7.5 billion life cycle cost, including implementing the system as well as maintaining it, does your company expect to get paid?

Please have them check in.

The FMBT program has to succeed, and despite some significant bumps in the road, I do believe that it can.

No more projects can be permitted to fail again and again yet continue to receive funding from the taxpayers. That is unacceptable.

How is it then that you can tell me that you can sit here in front of this committee and not tell me that this estimate is going to be too low?

You have already spent 5 years and more than $1 billion to implement the iFAMS system in seven offices.

This rule completely contradicts the Taylor Grazing Act and FLPMA.

the BLM trying to expand its powers, an attempt to expand your powers.