elizabeth warren. during the talk about national security issues, they talked about bringing back dr. gates. when we had the crisis in va, we were sent the deputy chief of staff, and it's no disrespect to mr. nabors, but where is the medical leader that's going to come rescue health issues at the nation's largest health organization and i think that's the issue. it goes to the issue of how people look at va. one of the reasons why i reached out to the white house was because i was trying to find the person who could answer questions and resolve this issue. we have almost a czar for almost everything you can imagine in this town, but not one for veterans, and i think that's the issue. there has to be an outside source to say, mr. chairman, members of congress, mr. speaker, mr. president, i have noticed this information, this information came to me. it's not going to work. in terms of the context of giving the secretary the right to fire people, in november 2013 a memo was released by the assistant secretary for human resources stating that employees were not to go to the secretary's office ab