"So this is the self-certify. So if I go to HHS and say I am a service-disabled veteran and I own this company and I want to bid for this contract, they just check I am a service-disabled veteran, but ..."
"If we have a company that puts a service-disabled veteran on the list, provides documents and says this is where they are in leadership, this is where their name should be on the door, but you actuall..."
"That is intentional, willful fraud that is putting a person's name out there and then trying to deceive to be able to get a contract."
"We need to verify with our trust."
"Thank you for the work that you are doing and not only for this hearing, but the work you are doing all the time, when the cameras are off as well."
"Let's find the things that are in the way and let's try to figure out how do we start resolving this."
"So far, this year, we are at about 48 percent denials or more than half now we are verifying."
"What we have determined is because of, as we evaluated failures to be verified, we have tried to go out with these simple little briefs."
"There was that issue before; now people have gotten the message you are not going to be verified, you are going to be investigated if you come in and say you are a vet when you are not."
"So you are saying currently the standard is 51 percent ownership, but 100 percent control."
"you saved us as a Nation, you saved freedom for what is happening; come home and save our economy."
"companies in Oklahoma love hiring veterans because they don't know when to quit."