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.
Dedicated to serving them. Thats what va is to veterans and thats why you dont find veterans demanding Community Care as the only choice. The demand for that only choice comes from elsewhere. It doesnt come from veterans. Veterans know better. I have tested this during my time as secretary, when somebody tells me that veterans should only have the choice of the Choice Program, i ask them are you a veteran . And by and large the answer is no. And then i ask to be here in between votes and, mr. Secretary, pleasure that you are here with us as well. I have a specific set of circumstances that ive addressed to you in a letter and want to follow up in this setting today. And i have no doubt but what you and other officials at the va are sympathetic and concerned and want to resolve the circumstances we find ourselves in with a particular employee at a particular va hospital in our state. We have the circumstance just to set the background for my questions, we face one of the worst examples
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