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Good morning. Were going to use this morning to consider the nomination of Patrick Shanahan to be deputy defen defense secretary of the United States. We thank you for your willingness to serve our nation at an important time. We welcome your family and friends. As is our tradition, we invite you to introduce them at the beginning of your testimony. Its important that this committee and other appropriate committees of the congress be able to receive testimony, briefings, and other communications of information. So it is a standard for this committee they ask certain questions in order to exerc...

Good morning. We need to consider the nomination of Patrick Shanahan. Mr. Shanahan, we thank you for joining us today and for your willingness to save country and serve our nation at an important time. We welcome your family and friends. As is our tradition, we invite you to introduce them at the beginning of your testimony. It is important that this committee and other appropriate committees of congress be able to receive testimony, briefings and other indications of information. So as it standard for this committee to ask certain questions to exercise its legislative and oversight responsibi...

Testimony, briefings and other communications of information. So it is standard for this committee to ask certain questions on order to exercise its legislative and oversight responsibilities. Have you adhere to applicable laws and regulations governing complex of interest . I have. Will you ensure that your staff complies with the deadlines established request to communications, including questions for the record in hearings . I will. Will you cooperate in providing witnesses and briefings in response to congressional requests . I will. Will those witnesses be protected from reprisals for the...

[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good evening and thank you all for being here and joining us. Its a somewhat unusual for the committee to meet in the evening hours. Tonights topic is one worth staying up late for. I want to keep our work this evening laser focused on the future on how we can all Work Together to create a better, brighter, healthier one for our veterans and for the Health Care System that weve built to serve. Rather than rehashing the mistakes we made long ago. As we begin to move forward this evening we mustnt lose sight of where we started. Three y...

[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good evening and thank you all for being here and joining us. Its a somewhat unusual for the committee to meet in the evening hours. Tonights topic is one worth staying up late for. I want to keep our work this evening laser focused on the future on how we can all Work Together to create a better, brighter, healthier one for our veterans and for the Health Care System that weve built to serve. Rather than rehashing the mistakes we made long ago. As we begin to move forward this evening we mustnt lose sight of where we started. Three y...