Doug Collins: “Somewhere in the VA, though, a number of years ago, we…”

“I don't know if y' all know this. Did y' all know that the, the. Everybody's heard of national building standards, right? We all know what national building standards are. Somewhere in the VA, though, a number of years ago, we decided those [national building standards] wasn't good enough, so we added an entire VH VA on top of it, which makes stuff that's going on in El Paso costs more and is basically not functional. We're taking that out. We're taking that whole thing out and, and making. Going to the standards that Mayo and everybody else uses.” (04:16–04:30)

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