Kirk had called for the resignation of the VA manager overseeing the hotline, but the VA seemed to try to mock the senator for using an outdated name, while simultaneously refusing to tell him the names of the people who have held the job more recently. “Katz’s e-mail was written shortly after the VA provided CBS News data showing there were only 790 attempted suicides in all 2007 – a fraction of Katz’s estimate,” CBS wrote. Kirk noted that Congress has given the VA more authority to fire top employees for a variety of reasons, and asked if the VA would use it on Katz, given the data falsification — which has been a recurring theme with serious misconduct at the department.