This hearing will come to order. Good afternoon. I want to welcome our witnesses. Appreciate your thoughtful testimony and your willingness to spend time here with us today. I ask consent that my written Opening Statement be entered into the record. Without objection. This hearing really is what this committee is all about. Particularly on the Governmental Affairs portion. We have a Mission Statement that we developed last congress with my former Ranking Member senator and no Ranking Member add very good addition to it. The original one is to enhance the economic and national and senator asked we have more efficient accountable government. Thats what the gao does. Thats what Inspector Generals do. And so we certainly appreciate your work. I dont know how many times i have said it, others have said youre our favorite folks in government. You give us the information that really can make government more efficient, more effective and accountable. Todays hearing is on the gaos high risk ser
We did galloped last congress and the new Ranking Member the original was and to promote Accountable Government that is what the gao does and the Inspector General. We appreciate your work item no how many times we have said this. You give us the information. So todays hearing is on the highrisk series something that has been prepared that has ben from the early 90s over last tenures reporting to under 40 million to make government more efficient 21 million per year and senator grassley and i and to be implemented the result was 15,222 saving 87 billion. That is real money even with the federal government. And to speak a lot and thought we would invite to Inspector Generals for the Veterans Affairs from the department of homelands security tier testify been even John Thompson to be in the hot seat. And to get the viewpoint how they are listed on the highrisk list and the challenges. And looking forward to the hearing. To senator macassar school. I know that you know, this but with thos
And abuse. The hearing is about two hours. This hearing will come to order. Good afternoon. I want to welcome our witnesses. I appreciate your thoughtful testimony and your willingness to spend some time with us here today. I ask consent for my written Opening Statement be entered in the record. This hearing really is what this committees all about, particularly on the Governmental Affairs portion, but we have a Mission Statement that we developed last congress with my former Ranking Member and then my new ranking had a very good addition to it. The original one was to enhance the economic and National Security of america and the senator suggested we add and promote efficient, more efficient, effective and Accountable Government and thats what the gao does and Inspector Generals do. We appreciate your work. I dont know how many times ive said and others have said youre our favorite folks in government. You give us the information that really can make government more efficient and effec
Information on the current scope of the problem, what is the potential cost, and what the impact would be if this recommendation was implemented. In conclusion, moa appreciates the senate and house committees unwavering leadership and focus on improving health care for our veterans. I would like to just share a quote from one of our veterans in the field. Who articulates what our perspective is on v. A. Health care. I will tell you that are v. A. Has a very solid reputation and despite what is heard in the national press, i know from personal experience and from experiences i have heard from others who use the v. A. Interim, we are very fortunate. The v. A. Medical center works well and the staff is committed to its mission. When i walked through the v. A. Medical center in durham, i am struck with two things. The first is how complex it must be to manage such a facility. Facescond is when i see of people who have nowhere else to go, the v. A. Is there for them. Believes this v. A. Med
We are glad to have become today. We will change the methodology little bit. We have two votes. When i 2 45 and one following that vote. We are going to run the hearing continuously. We going to waive Opening Statements. We will go straight to secretary mcdonell to make his full statement. Then we will go into q and a. With your cooperation, will work with those two votes. If we do shutdown, it will only be for a couple minutes. Let me welcome everybody to this meeting of the Center Veterans affairs meeting. I think todays hearing will be equally as good as last week. The commission on care is a great project that examined the veteran administrations Delivery System for our veterans and had a lot of recommendations. A lot of provoking recommendations. I appreciate the embrace that secretary mcdonell has given to ideas from others that have come in. We have talked a little bit about them. He will have a great testimony. ,et me welcome the secretary Robert Mcdonald to make his testimony.