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NEWS from HEARING ON VA FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT:

REDUCING FRAUD AND INCREASING COLLECTIONS

Witness List and Statements

Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL), Ranking Democratic Member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, makes her opening remarks.  Listening are Rep. Lane Evans (D-IL), the full Committee's Ranking Democratic Member, left; Minority Counsel Bill Crandell, and Subcommittee Chairman Terry Everett (R-AL), right.

 

The leadoff witness was VA Inspector General Richard J. Griffin, left.   He was accompanied by Michael Sullivan, VA's Assistant Inspector General for Auditing.
 

Congresswoman Brown listens as Chairman Everett makes his remarks.

 

 

Chairman Everett (right) grills the final panel (above), consisting of VA officials (from left) Todd Gramms, Chief Financial Officer, Veterans Health Administration; Edward A. Powell Jr., Assistant Secretary for Financial Management; Nora Egan, Deputy Under Secretary for Management, Veterans Benefits Administration; and D. Mark Catlett, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget.