Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to our panel for being with us.
I just feel optimism from this hearing, which is a rare feeling in this panel.
this is by far the most informative and effective hearing I have been in in my four and a half years on this Committee.
we also are facing an opioid crisis. A heroin epidemic, whatever word you want to put on it, it is happening across the country.
Hospital economics are wear the rubber meets the blue sky.
I cannot imagine that we--the U.S. Government, through the VA, goes after a homeless woman because of some retroactive change in her benefit...
let's not put them under this improper payment category; let's define it some other way.
We will work with our colleagues to make sure you get the IT funding you need.
I just think it is duplicitous for them to pretend that we are going to recoup millions, billions of dollars.
I think we still have some misunderstanding, at least from Members of this Committee and perhaps from the public at large, about these--the ...
I have a concern about expectations going forward based on the White House budget presentation.