So at this point, I do not care if you are wrong. I really do not care if you are wrong.

However, no single law by itself will create the large scale cultural and structural reform that is truly needed in our nation's second largest bureaucracy.

So who has been fired?

I was very disappointed to see that the Black Hills Health Care System had considerably lower marks than other hospitals that were in the area and the national average.

I believe one of them--it was a conversation that happened several months ago about checkups for pacemakers no longer being done here in Hot Springs, stress tests being moved to different facilities.

The Committee has conducted aggressive and historic oversight in the four months since the depth of VA's many deficiencies has come to light.

So when you remove services, do you remove the ability to service patients?

But I will tell you that I have been going through this for the last 2 and a half years with the Hot Springs community and with you, and the entire time the Pine Ridge reservation and the Oglala Tribe have told us that they believe they…

It took them 134 days to answer our questions.

I am concerned specifically about how you evaluated that the Hot Springs facility was the highest cost operating facility within VISN 23.

I have been very troubled by the VA's disregard of stakeholder grievances.

I wanted to follow up with President Brewer. I wanted you to speak a little bit about the veterans that we have currently living on Pine Ridge.

But I would like to know what changes you are implementing.

So ensuring that this facility is able to continue serving the men and women who have worn America's uniform is on my top priorities.

You cannot remember what your original proposal of moving the facility to Rapid City was, how much that would cost moving care services to Rapid City, putting clinics in.

But you talked about----

So have you come closer together in number? Have you reconciled after you wrote these letters?

Thank you all for taking time out of your day to join us and for the work that you do to support and honor our nation's veterans.

Secretary Shinseki, when we had a meeting with him in Washington, DC and talked about his decision to move forward with the EIS process--he promised that there would be no more reduction in services at this facility while we went through…

But as we lose services here, it obviously would cause more veterans to seek care in Rapid City as well.

So you are saying the standard of care changed and that is why that service can no longer be offered here at Hot Springs.

So tell me what your ideal hiring process would look like.

You have not been able to reconcile the data on number of veterans served in the area.

I believe that the true potential of this hospital has not been reached and that the services that our veterans deserve must return to Hot Springs immediately.

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, over the past several years, my eyes have really been opened to the disturbing type of slavery that we have seen across the world and here at home. I have heard about human trafficking before…