Thank you once again, Chairman Coffman, for holding this hearing and for your hard work and leadership of the subcommittee on oversight and investigations.

These legislative hearings are vital as the subcommittee begins our work to ensure that the important legislation moves forward.

I am not talking about bringing the Army Corps in on this project, I am talking about whether the VA should be in the business of building hospitals at all.

Cyber security is an ever growing threat and problem.

I look forward to our work together on the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.

I can't imagine this kind of money in the private sector.

I feel that we can do better by our veterans without building the Taj Mahal, and with all due respect to Aurora, Colorado.

I share across the aisle here the shock and on behalf of all of the veterans and all of the taxpayers outside of the great state of Colorado, not only is this a tragedy because of the request that you are coming forward to ask for a…

This is an important issue facing all of us in the Congress, and I really appreciate your time.

One concern that I have about the TPP is the impact on increased foreign dairy imports that we have been talking about this morning on these small dairy farmers.

In other words, we need to streamline the process for clearing the acreage that can be logged, rather than increasing that regulation process.

I do feel that we have sort of dropped into a black hole with regard to the notice of this hearing.