User Clip: Sen. Inhofe Discusses Military Housing Conditions & MHPI Reform

Senate Session, June 19, 2019 - WE IMPROVED THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OUR TROOPS AND FAMILIES, MAKING SURE OUR TROOPS HAVE QUALITY HEALTH CARE AND A SOLID ROOF OVER THEIR HEADS. JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO OUR COMMITTEE BECAME AWARE OF SOME REALLY SERIOUS PROBLEMS IN HOUSING. THIS IS ONLY JUST ABOUT LAST FEBRUARY. AND THIS IS SOMETHING -- FRANKLY, I WAS ONE OF THE EQUIPMENT PARTIES BECAUSE WE PRIVATIZE HOUSING SOME TIME AGO AND THAT WAS SOMETHING -- YEAH, IN A WAY IT SURE MAKES IT EASIER FOR US, MAKES IT EASIER FOR THE MILITARY. WE FOUND OURSELVES IN A SITUATION WHERE WE SENT OUT BIDS AND WE HAD CONTRACTORS THAT WERE BIDDING TO DO THE HOUSING WORK. BUT THEN WE FOUND OUT WE'RE -- WORKED FINE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS BUT AS TIME WENT BY -- AND THIS IS HUMAN NATURE -- PEOPLE GOT CARELESS AND I THINK MAYBE THE CONTRACTORS GOT A LITTLE BIT GREEDY. THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN WE FOUND OUT WE HAD HOUSING FOR OUR PEOPLE WITH MOLD AND WITH ALL KINDS OF SERVICE PROBLEMS. WE HAD A HEARING ON THIS. WE ACTUALLY HAVE close