dr. karen seal, who will share with us her findings on health care utilization of iraq and afghanistan veterans. finally, on our third panel we'll hear from the administration and their views and the views of two important veterans' organizations, a.m. am vets and the wounded warrior project. i want to thank everyone for coming, those who are going to be testifying, those in the audience. i now yield to our ranking member, mr. filner. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for taking the leadership on this subject. of course, we have all raised serious concerns over many years about the backlog of claims and there are now a record number of service men and women returning home with scars from the war. now is simply not the time to delay their benefits. the report you mentioned that was released last year by the va inspector general focusing on the delay of our service members getting an appointment for medical exam in order to process their claim for compensation is just one more example of how the va seems to be failing our veterans. that system has many obstacles for our warriors by putting th