chairman, hahl rogers from committee -- hal rogers from kentucky, told us a story of a young man that was wounded in afghanistan -- iraq, who lost one eye, lost eyesight in one eye. as he left the service to go in the v.a. system in order to save his remaining eye, he had to have medical records that could be read by the v.a. doctors. and because of the bureaucratic, inefficiency and poor idiocy we have a completely different set of medical records in the d.o.d. and the veterans administration system. for years taxpayers have spent upwards of $1 billion or more over the last 10 years to get the department of defense and the department of veterans affairs operating in a single -- using a single unified medical record so when a young man like this moves out of active service and into the v.a., when it's a time critical surgery, such as this young man