mr. fortenberry and mr. culberson and their staff for the excellent work on this legislation and helping me facilitate this amendment and discussion. i also want to thank, of course, the committee staff who has just been wonderful. my amendment would require that no funds in this opings bill shall be used for the administrative expenses until the secretary meets with the nebraska delegation. the secretary's calendar should never be so busy he cannot meet with an entire delegation. now, mr. chairman, on june 6 of 2013, almost 11 months ago. our delegation asked for a meeting with secretary shin sec key. when i asked -- with secretary shinseki. when i say delegation, i mean all the house members and both senators signed on to the letter, which i ask unanimous consent to submit for the record. the chair: that request is covered under general leave. mr. terry: yes, sir. now the purpose of this inquiry was to discuss some health care alternatives for the v.a. nebraska-western iowa health care system. our hospital