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Our statutory authority. Increasingly we are finding ourselves unable to read what we find or unable to open a new device. That is serious. I think encryption is a good thing. I think there are tremendous societal impacts to encryption. Not only lock your cars, but you should encrypt things that are important to you. We have a collision in this country getting closer and closer to a head on, which is our important interest in privacy and our important interest in public safety. The logic of univ...

Is to see to it that veterans get world cap worldclass health care and they get it in a timely way. However we do that the important thing is to get it done. We had some bumps i have met with some of our private contractors and i appreciate those meetings and their confidence in the job that they can do. They may not have been cooperating before. See to it that the two are working seamlessly and if they cant, they will never work. You have to understand their contracts are not just subject to th...

Issued one would ask why to be a issue so many choice cards . Nevertheless the American Legion is optimistic that the recent rule change by eliminating the straightline rule and using the actual driving distance will allow more veterans access to health care under the Choice Program. The American Legion believes if va were to move forward with the rule change to include the va medical facility that can provide the needed medical care or Services Everyone would see increases in minimization and a...

Time. Placing an employee on openended paid vacation as reward for bad behavior instead of removing them. Next, hr 571, the Veterans Affairs retaliation prevention act would improve the process for whistleblowers within the department to report waste fraud, and abuse, to correct problems at the lowest level in the agency possible. Perhaps more portly it would expand accountability of supervisors who would seek to retaliate against employees who report wrongdoing. Also, require the v. A. To under...

World news headquarters in new york. This is the daily show with jon stewart captioning sponsored by comedy central. Jon hey, welcome to the daily show. Good show tonight. My name is jon stewart. We have a good show. My guest tonight ayaan Ayaan Hirsi Ali author of the book of heretic but first the department of the veterans affairs. Over the years they have developed something of a reputation over the backlog obscenely long wait times for appointments continue use of software that is roughly as...

Hirsi ali author of the book of heretic but first the department of the veterans affairs. Over the years they have developed something of a reputation over the backlog obscenely long wait times for appointments continue use of software that is roughly as old as keira nightly or as opposed to the va caller that actress from the imitation game movie with the futuristic computers. Im being too har or the va. They have worked tirelessly to change their ways. The los angeles va official dr. Skye mcdo...

We have a vote on the floor which should be over in the next ten minutes. I will talk a little bit and tell you what i want you to know. I will start with testimony from sloan gibson. Make the note that his staff said that was okay. I want to take extra time because this is an important hearing. Last year culminating with the passage of the veterans choice bill problems in raleigh, denver come orlando and answers that were in completed for understandable reasons. Just left about a year early. Go...

Thought. So explain your logic in terms of not allowing them to make that choice than elves. We have spent a great deal of time talking about this. One of the things for us to keep in mind is that 81 of the veterans we provide care for have Medicare Medicaid or some form of private Health Insurance. Oftentimes what you see today, you mention this fact earlier that the veterans have given the option for toys and somewhat elect to stay in and that is precisely what happens today. Roughly half of 4...

At the same time, weve had a large increase in care in the community, choice hasnt worked as intended. Here are some things were doing to fix it. On april 24th we changed the measure from Straight Line to driving distance. Using the fastest route. This roughly doubles the number of veterans eligible for the 40mile program under choice. Excuse me. But there is much more to do. A followon mailing to all eligible veterans is about to go out. Weve Just Launched a major change in internal processes t...

Whistleblowers, an extension of nonmedical employee probationary periods and requirement that gao conduct a study of the a time space, and resources devoted to labor union activities. I encourage those of you today if you have not already research this legislation, please do so. We would welcome your support of these crucial pieces of legislation. I look forward to hearing from each of you today, and the groups that you represent. I now yield five minutes to the senator from georgia, my good fri...