Mike Rounds actually said...

"to really help put a model in place, a new operating model to transform the VA from one that takes the best of the private sector and the best of what we do."

"You are going to need a plan. Would you commit that you will bring back to this Committee a plan for putting this in order?"

"I really have a question as to whether or not they ought to be doing the construction, because I did not see where they brought a heck of a lot of expertise to the projects that they are doing."

"I think when we spoke with Secretary McDonald and also Deputy Secretary Gibson, we mentioned that we understand that they walked into, literally, a very deep pond with a lot of gators in it."