Senator, I'll be happy if you have specifics, please get that to me and I'll find out where the contract process is. I don't think it's any. It's not a staffing issue. Maybe just the way that unfortunately our contracting in VA and many other federal agencies is slow. Let me just very quickly identify the two contracts. There's a sharing agreement between va, pih, vafix and the army to provide needed resources to both the veterans and service members who get care at Tripler. (05:21–05:29)
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Asserts that the slow contract process is not due to staffing issues but inherent slowness in federal contracting.
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