Mike Rounds

Do you know how many different lawsuits you are involved with right now on this particular rule?

The health of the water is also a very crucial economic decision.

This is a pretty important economic decision, isn't it?

One of the largest. Very, very important in terms of economic impact and very, very important in terms of the political impact.

Isn't this agreement made meaningless by the fact that China has repeatedly denied that it engages in the activities this agreement purports to stop?

I think the cleaner we get the processes within the VA the better off we are going to be.

I suspect that if I was one of the individuals suffering with this, I would have a lot more confidence in getting something done if we had a different agency doing the research.

You say it validated it?

But certainly you would have seen a copy of what would be expected of the independent agency?

So either the documents exist and your agency has not seen them, or second of all, the documents are still being developed.

I have serious concerns about imposing additional rules, regulations and permitting requirements on our jobs, our Nation's job creators, our electricity providers and our families.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:14 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, August 5, 2015, at 9:30 a.m.

Major regulations that cost billions of dollars, stifle economic growth and inhibit job creation are being made by unelected bureaucrats.

These citizen suits are being used to perpetuate what is often referred to as a sue-and-settle process.

States have been so entirely shut out of the process that their opposition is rarely given serious consideration.

The details of this particular decision were discussed with VISN 23 leadership prior to the decision being made.

Have you had any discussion about tribal lands where we have got an estimated 2,000 Native Americans--veterans, warriors--who are homeless today?

I am curious, because what we looked at was about a $3.2 billion shortfall in terms of the agency.

I would like to understand the process that was used in determining which programs were more at risk than others.

I appreciate the VA's mission to end homelessness among veterans.

What it did, though, was it brought to light the fact that when we collect data, we have an additional obligation to protect that data.

Look, we have got to have disclosures that people will actually read.

Let me just move on to rural appraisals. I am from South Dakota. We have had challenges.

I would like to see that, because what we are hearing here is that if you are doing peer reviews, the next question is if you find the problems, what do you do to fix them, and you have suggested that you have the disciplinary capabilities…

Could you also get me or get the Committee the actual disciplinary actions that have occurred so far, whether it be in a 1-year period, 2-year period, or 3-year period of time?