U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., made the following comments during a oversight hearing of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. He is the top Republican on the Committee.

" ... it concerns the over $1.4 billion allocated to V.A. on the part of the stimulus package.... According to the administration's Web site, the latest numbers indicate that just over three-hundredth of 1 percent of these dollars has actually been spent to date — three hundredth of 1 percent.

We're now in the fourth month since the stimulus package was signed into law. I'm anxious to hear why there's been a delay in spending money that was meant to stimulate the economy and what the plan is going forward. "