Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/senate-hears-testimony-on-walter-reed-conditions Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript The Senate questioned Army officials Tuesday about the conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other troop treatment centers around the country. NewsHour reports on the hearings. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: Finally tonight, the Walter Reed story, and more questions from Congress. Judy Woodruff reports.SEN. CARL LEVIN (D), Michigan: We welcome our witnesses here today. JUDY WOODRUFF: Today, the Army's top brass faced questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee. Outgoing Army Chief of Staff General Peter Schoomaker accepted responsibility for substandard care of some wounded soldiers, but said any shortcomings in medical care are symptomatic of a much larger problem in the military.GEN. PETER SCHOOMAKER, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army: I will tell you that we all run in a bureaucratic morass. Life every day in this system is like running in hip boots in a swamp, and it sucks the energy out of you every day, not just in the medical system, but in everything else that we do.