Thank you Secretary for being with us with your team.

I have a concern about expectations going forward based on the White House budget presentation.

I think we really need to be focused on reducing those wait times by giving people the times when they can get a ride.

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 thank the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Walz) and the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Roe) for their support of this bill. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to speak on my bill, H.R. 1545, the VA Prescription Accountability Act. This bill…

But Ms. Park, your testimony is that 90 percent of that cannot be recovered.

I thank Representative McSally and Representative Jackie Speier for bringing us to the floor today. I speak on behalf of H.R. 2052, the PRIVATE Act. I was deeply disturbed by the Marine United photo-sharing scandal, as were many of my…

I think we still have some misunderstanding, at least from Members of this Committee and perhaps from the public at large, about these--the impact of our provider agreements on this dramatically inflated improper payment.

I certainly hope we don't go forward with going after rural hospitals for services that have already been provided.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon and welcome to the Oversight and Investigations Committee.

I cannot imagine that we--the U.S. Government, through the VA, goes after a homeless woman because of some retroactive change in her benefits that she knew nothing about and takes money out of her paycheck and repossesses her car.