s office reminding me every day of men and women that we serve and with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. >> congress nba collins, thank you for your testimony. we'll have a round of questions. i'll start and then ask a couple of questions and then yield to the ranking member. it would be unexpected if i didn't each my questioning of you in regard to the mission act. i wiz involved in the creation of the choice act. we then attempted to improve it. make it more certain with the mission act and my views are highly framed by my days as a member of the house of representatives in which i represented a congressional district the size of the state of illinois with no v.a. hospital. so i care about rural ask the distance that those rural veterans face. so i want to ask, if confirmed, will you make certain that the letter and spirit of the mission act is followed by every employee in every v.a. facility and that the veterans are aware of their rights to advocate for themselves and to receive care when they need it, where they want it? >> push my button, we'll get it. as we spoke in your office, there's no great

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