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Please proceed with your testimony. Chairman miller, distinguished members of the committee, our goiding principles for implementation of the choice act have been to do whats right for veterans and to be good stewards of taxpayer resources. While our challenges are clear, were turning those challenges into opportunities to improve the care and service we provide to veterans. We are reorganizing v. A. For success to make sure we maximize those opportunities. We call that reorganization my v. A. ,...

Values, the kurds themselves, are the largest minority population in the world. Without a country themselves. Therefore, the same question would be posed for them. Not sure it would be long. The message the Committee Received from the government is that they desperately need equipment, what is the government response for that . Can i throw it back at you and ask what specifically they requested . Machine guns, we saw that. They wanted armored vehicles, things like that to assist them. Request to...

Washington journal continues. Host we are back with congressman walter jones, republican of North Carolina from the Armed Services committee. What is your assessment of the isis strategy so far . Is it working . Guest let me say that one of the worst mistakes i made since i have been in congress was too vote to pass the aumf, authorization of military force, to give president bush the authority to go into iraq. Host in 2002 . Isst yes, maam, the reason we have a constitutional responsibility and...

So one of the, i think, test when the rubber hits the road here is what is the capacity in private secretarior to really absorb patients in a more timely way than we have been able to provide that care. Thank you. How is the v. A. Tracking the use of the 10 billion allocate had for the Choice Program . All of that will be accounted for separately under the Choice Program. This is actually a mechanism very similar to what we set up back in may for the accelerating Care Initiative where we were al...

Take 15 minutes. Enjoy your break. The day long Education Forum hosted by republican senator tim scott from South Carolina is taking another break so the next panel can get in place. That third panel will include republican congressman luke masser of indiana. While we wait for it to get started, were going to show you a conversation on how americans view police. This is from this mornings washington journal. Were here to talk about a new poll on how communities are viewing law enforcement. The p...

Mcconnell in a bad position because theyre going to have to fracture their confidence. This is what happens in washington. Its finding something that ewan fies your side and defies the other. The House Republicans felt good about this plan. Building stronger communities through schools. Thats a hard panel to follow from the first one i have to say. That was an amazing panel and we heard great information. And we will do the same here. By name is robert and im the president and ceo of the Freeman...

Thats overseas, bringing that money back and raising taxes on that money to pay for the plan. So the bottom line is is infrastructure is traditionally a bipartisan issue. Everyone agrees our infrastructure is outdated and needs to be modernized. It also supports good supporting middleclass jobs right away and it sets us up for competitiveness in this global marketplace. With that ill hand it back to josh. Thank you, guys. Well open it up for questions. Who wants to be first . Mr. Kunan. Jeff, i ...

Thinking of as ron was asking you to imagine some of the challenges is the fact that this executive action does not do a lot of things. One of the things it doesnt do is provide eligibility for health care, for example, for people who are eligible overall. When you have people who are still going without Health Insurance, that becomes more of a challenge and an issue for your communities. Im wondering what the possible ways of addressing that might be and whether that does, indeed, pose a challe...

That a couple of things that we were told, specifically by the Service Members is that theres theyre concerned about the service to their country and the gi bill. Those are two things that were very important to them in terms of why they would come in, what they were looking for. Get an education benefit, be able to take advantage of that, which is a strong recruiting tool, and then move on to something else. Very good. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you all for being he...

Do you do anything about that . Were very concerned as well. The most simple, direct step thats been taken many times before under both parties is a small reallocation of the payroll tax. And we ought to take that step and make sure that those who have earned these benefits get those benefits. Well lets and i dont mean to interrupt you because i dont have a lot of time. So, what youre doing is basically ignoring the fact that its exhausted and transferring the money. Lets be honest. When you say...