I first want to thank Representative Frank Mrvan for his leadership during the last Congress.

The question is how much money we will spend before we fully recognize that.

If you are not going to produce better healthcare, then why spend that money, because it is all about better healthcare for veterans.

I think that very clearly describes exactly the frustrations that I have had since I was exposed to this, and that is that the benefit, the healthcare benefit is not being provided properly.

Their purpose is not to churn out cushy contracts for technology companies.

At the same time, we have got a $1.1 billion investment that is being sent to Cerner, again, where we see five facilities that they are funding that are not working properly, that are still relying on the VistA system.

Again, the question was: What component of VistA generates and tracks these alerts? How are you addressing this issue that they are not being resolved?

The reality is, regardless of whether the Oracle Cerner implementation can be accomplished... the VA will probably continue to rely on VistA for at least another decade.

We did, however, expose serious mismanagement in several of the largest VA information technology systems.

When I see a system that is providing the vast amount of healthcare delivery information for you and I see you starving it, and then you come in before us and tell us that it is not only being utilized for the vast majority of the facilities but the facilities that are utilizing Cerner are still depending upon this system as well, why would you still starve that system of the revenue it needs to provide the technology that is working?

Biden's actions, quite frankly, are a disgrace to veterans that are sitting in this room and are serving across the nation.