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We are working hard to collect every penny that we can. I am out of time, apparently. Mrs. Titus. Thank you mr. Chairman. A lot of that money leftover though, was used quietly to pay for the continuation of the denver project, wasnt it . Are you talking about the money from the treasury for the last five years . Wherever you found that. Its not available to us. We cant use that money. We thought we could, and its money that essentially becomes, as i said deobligated as expenses come in and also sometimes that there are new expenses for whatever might have happened in, lets say, in 14, and that money is used in that year, so you can become antideficient after the fact, so to speak. So that 1. 3 billion was not available to us. We had hoped it would be. I was the staff person that had the cryptic conversation with the house staff back in june and we had we thought we had a plan when i mean, in my opinion, quite frankly, we are a victim of our success. We have gotten many more veterans ca
At the v. A. Have any accountability or any responsibility at all for this happening . If so, how much . Of course we do. As was laid out in the last hearing on the same subject just a few weeks ago, there are many reasons that we are where we are. I think we all share some of the response ability. We have a new program called the Choice Program. We have seven different ways of providing in the community. Im sorry. Did you want to interrupt . My time is limited. You have described with the layout of the land is. Is going to show you what accountability we half. Ok. Do you have any role in this . One of the things you learn is to have no excuses. One of the things that baffles me this case is we are dealing with a Computer System that is over 30 years old call the fms system. It is written in a language i wrote in 1973. We have got to change the Management System of the financial of this enterprise. Our i. T. Budget is about 50 of what a Health Care System i. T. Budget is. We have got t
You at this point. Mr. Kaufman. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, thank you for your service in the United States army. Although the president id like to think the president chose you in recognition. In proctor and gamble. And we had in this committee, my predecessor on the over sight subcommittee had requested a study of Major Construction products and that was done and published in april of 2013. At that time, it said there were four ongoing projects one in las vegas orlando, new orleans aurora colorado listed as denver. That the average 366 Million Dollars over budget. And that they were each on average about three years behind schedule. We clearly knew there was a big problem. If you and proctor and gamble were to step in and you had an apartment that was that dysfunctional, you would have fired the management team. Straightened it out, spotted off when i look at the v. A. , your core competency is benefits to veterans, health care being a significant part of that. Constructi
Budgets. We had employees willing to give up compensation to meet this need of veterans in the community. Maybe some bonuses too. Miss walorski. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary good to see you. Thanks for being here today. The problem that i dont understand with this, this is what i dont get, is that it seems like it keeps coming back to this issue of perception. You know you come today and you have your stats and your tables and your graphs and thoed kind of things and we over here, we want Solutions Just as badly as everybody else because were fighting for veterans in our district and fighting in a bipartisan matter and doing everything we can do legally through a legislative process but what weve been up to since you been here last is multiple hearings that go on every other day and look at the whistleblower retaliation, and systematic failures in denver and waste and fraud and abuse and ive been involved and every time your i. T. Chief has been here and we talked about this