dr. scoville. ms. halliday, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> chairman johnson, ranking member connolly and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss the results of the oig report dealing with how v.a. acquires prosthetic limbs and manages its prosthetics inventories nationwide. we conducted these audited at the request of the house veterans affairs committee. i'm accompanied by mr. nick dahl and mr. kent wrathall, our director in our atlanta office. before i discuss the results of our work, let me make one thing clear: the oig supports that vet vans -- veterans should generally be able to receive the limbs that they and their clinicians determine are best for them, either v.a. or commercial vendors. our audit focused on the effectiveness of v.a.'s acquisitions and contracted administrative practicesment we did not examine the definition of the prosthetics or whether the v.a. labs are the preferred source for prosthetic limbs rather than contract vendors based on c