I believe there is an understandable lack of trust in the vas explanation. I urge all my colleagues to support this motion and i yield back. Thank you mr. Coffman. Thank you mr. Chairman, i want to remind my friend and my colleague from colorado that congress and of the morning hours, approved over a billion dollars to augment and there were projects over concerns of minorities that more conditions sort of have been attached and that the funding should have been sunlightbmitted careful. I am engaged in this how we should hold the va accountable for. Again, i find it a bit rich that Congress Approved that funding in the middle of the night over, i think the concerns of the minority. Today i am concerned that you are asking us to exercise our subpoena power when it maybe unnecessary. You have denied my request for witness for violating committee rules. How can we as a committee to Work Together to make the right decisionings f decisions for veterans. I am requesting today that we hold a
Dishonorable, president bush used that word today. The president said misconduct will not be tolerated. Iwell go to mike viqueira, who is the white house for us. Reporter long wait times and cooked books. President obama said if thats what really happened, if thats what really happened then things have got to change. Critics say weve heard this all before. Heads must roll. With allegations of deception and misconduct mounting. If these allegations prove to be true it is dishonorable. It is disgraceful, and i will not 20 tolerate it, period. Reporter president obamas angry comment came after he met with his be beleaguered veterans secretary erik sh she kinsey. The reports emerged last month of staffers cooking the books submitting phoney documents to make it seem that veterans were receiving timely care when in reality several even died. Tough words are just not enough when it comes to this issue. We need action. But its not only republicans. The American Legion was also critical, respo
Down systems, and this is stuff thats imminently fixable. But we have to know about it. To fix it. One last point i want to make on this, when veterans have gotten access to the system, the healthcare itself that they are receiving has gotten high marks from Veterans Service organizations and the veterans themselves. So its important to keep in mind that what the review indicates, so far at least, is that there have been Great Strides made in the actual care provided to veterans, and the challenge is getting veterans in the door, particularly for the first appointment in some cabses, where they dont have an established relationship with the doctor, and theyre not in the system. Part of that is technology, and part of that is management. But as Rick Shinseki himself indicated, theres a need for culture in the vha. And perhaps the va as a whole, to make sure that bad news gets surfaced quickly so things can be fixed. And i know that was the attitude of secretary shinseki and what he comm