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Me are acting like selfish children. >> reporter: veterans say they are the ones suffering as they enter their aging medicalcility in denver but countless delays finger pointing and a bloated budget keep them waiting on the promised new center in aurora, colorado. the va admits it has badly mismanaged congress strux. >> i apologize to veterans here in colorado and i apologize to our taxpayers. >> reporter: in 2008 congress authorized $568 million. in 2010 it upped it to $800 million. >> every major construction project that the veterans administration has right now is hundreds of millions of d...

Grashlt grants. authorities say they -- blue sky am. this days after a greek ferry fire that required a heroic rescue effort. just months after a major scandal in which it was revealed some of our nation's vet trachberans were getting shoddy health scare. a hospital project in denver, turning into a fiasco. >> construction has resumed on the long delayed new rhett veteran's administration medical center in aurora, colorado. but the va says it will run out of cash again in a matter of months unless congress comes up with the funds. >> the people who are spare heading this new hospital which i...

The department needs strong leadership right now. >> what has happened over the course of years is a horrendous blemish on the va's reputation and much more work will be needed to repair that damage. >> gibson is asking congress for $17.6 billion to get the va on track. most of that money would be for constructing and renovating facilities and hiring 10,000 new staff. >> roughly 1,500 of those are actually physicians. others are nurses and nurse practitioners and other direct patient support staff. >> reporter: some democrats say the va is suffering from aack of funding in the past. >> because...

Getting no touch with those folks but we're waiting on congress to authorize a much greater, a much larger toolbox. they have to get this legislation done so the va can use the private sector if it needs to, get in and fire people and get anymore there who can do the job. we have to expand the va's toolbox and congress has to get its act together and finish so mcdonald can get in there and hit the ground running, because we need -- >> republicans worry the cost, as they should democrats worry there will pell mell firing, but they're too rigid in their philosophical views on this to get past th...

A graduate of west point, general shinseki served two combat tours in vietnam where he lost part of his foot and was awarded two purple hearts and three bronze stars. throughout his nearly four decades in the united states army, he won the respect and admiration of our men and women in uniform because they have always been his highest priority. >> you can tell from no gray hair. that was 5 1/2 years ago. president obama nominating eric shinseki to be secretary of veterans affairs. president spent most of that speech talking about general shinseki's four decades in the u.s. army. he was a gener...