You helped to put a human face on an issue that for many people can be reduced to processes or numbers or abstractions.

Our goal is to continue to improve health outcomes and take advantage of advances in the commercial marketplace as quickly as possible.

I think, at this point, we are looking at the integrated program office, the IPO, as the primary oversight body that is in place, to do that.

Why should we ask our service member and families to wait for a newly-developed system when there are commercially available systems running our nation's top ranked hospitals and clinics?

If DoD and VA used commercial systems, they would be able to exchange information with the commercial healthcare neighbors.

The plans announced by the Secretaries earlier this month would allow the DoD to rapidly replace their failing system with a commercial system.

Do you have any specific recommendations to correct those longstanding deficiencies?

Couldn't the DoD use these methods to share patient information with the VA if they adopted a commercial system?

Former Army Surgeon General Schoomaker and several other military leaders testified in 2009 that the DoD needs to replace their current clinical system, AHLTA, in order to improve quality of care, patient engagement, provider satisfaction…

Can we justify spending ongoing tax payer dollars to support these expensive systems while an entirely different system is being developed?

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring to your attention the devastating impacts that the sequester will have on my community, El Paso, Texas. The numbers speak for themselves. Two weeks of furloughs for Customs and Border Patrol…