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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
Now. Its not as long as some people, but its getting old. Thank you. Thank you. [ applause ] are we able to get his information so we can well get back to you, sir. Hello, sir. I want to thank you for coming tonight. The best way to solve a problem is facetoface with the veterans. I come here tonight to stop one of the policies that are causing veterans to commit suicide and killing veterans. When veterans are in an abusive situation with a pac team, it doesnt matter if its a pac team leader abusing the patients, it doesnt matter if the nurses are abusing the patients, or the doctor is abusing the patients. Any of those three can cause the patients hell. Requiring a veteran to wait 90 days before he can switch to another provider, and you assign them another provider, for a whole year, which means theyre going to get an abuser greater than the one they left and theyre going to be stuck for a whole year with that abuser. This policy memo ac02 thought up by sharon hellman, we all know he