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thank you. as you might imagine, this is a critical time within our government and certainly for our veterans out there. and that s why i asked the secretary and i am so pleased and on very short notice he was able to come in and give us some indication on where we are now and where we will be going in the future depending on how long this shutdown does in fact continue. i want to welcome to the table our first and only witness of this morning, the secretary for the u.s. department of veteran s affairs. your complete written statement, mr. secretary, will be nered into the record. and you are recognized for five minutes. great. members of the committee, thank you for entering my written statement. let me, mr. chairman, just recognize in the room here we have partners for all of us from our veteran s service organizations.