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.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my opposition to President Trump's proposed budget. This budget proposal confirms our worst fears about the priorities of his administration. The budget is cruel, it is shortsighted, and would be a…

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

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

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

We have a serious disconnect if the White House is assuming that these funds can be recovered.

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.

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

I just think it is duplicitous for them to pretend that we are going to recoup millions, billions of dollars.

let's not put them under this improper payment category; let's define it some other way.