Officials with the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs in late July told Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) the agency plans to complete a $260-million Orlando medical-center project by next summer and won't require any additional funding to do so.
The update by Timothy Liezert, the medical center's director, contradicts the contractor, who testified to Congress earlier this year that the project was more than $100 million over budget and could not be completed until 2014.