"Unfortunately, I have a mine in Rosebud, Montana, the Signal Peak Mine, which is experiencing the exact same thing that you are, Mr. Luthi."
"No more projects can be permitted to fail again and again yet continue to receive funding from the taxpayers. That is unacceptable."
"Do you believe it is sufficient to drive accountability when they look at this contract?"
"The FMBT program has to succeed, and despite some significant bumps in the road, I do believe that it can."
"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?"
"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."
"Please have them check in."
"FMBT is the VA's third attempt to modernize its hodgepodge of aging inadequate financial and accounting systems."
"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..."
"I agree with that and this is exactly the concern that I have, okay."