I want to follow up on something that Congresswoman Kuster brought up and I tried to address in my earlier questions.

When these projects go over these many months or these many dollars, what does it do to the projects behind them?

What can we do to improve that process, whether it is through a co-location, I talked about DoD, or through a university system, whether it is providing land and leasing opportunities, give us some guidance in El Paso on how we can partner…

And are the criteria you use to determine ranking within that SCIP process, are those published along with--

Mr. Kelley offered some suggestions to address some of the findings made by Ms. St. James.

we desperately, in my opinion, need a full service VA hospital in El Paso

if you are spending $366 million more than you originally budgeted, where is that money coming from if not from projects that would have been funded further down the list?

Please identify the factors that go into determining the Strategic Capital Investment Planning (SCIP) priority for a facility that is co-located with either a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) facility or a private or public medical center.

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