The latest results of vaccine trials continue to suggest our victory over the coronavirus is on the horizon. But here in washington the additional relief that would help families, workers, schoos and Small Businesses crossed the finish line has been held for months while democrat leaders pursued an all or nothing approach. When the speaker of the house put forward the socalled heroes act back in may, multiple, multiple House Democrats called the political start that it clearly was. When democrat said it was not focused, rushed to a vote to fast, and it doesnt help us accomplish the core mission of helping struggling people. Well, after a several months wih no progress the same democrat just said a few days ago that said republicans proposal, quote, is a bill we can pass. We should negotiate that to the finish. Even speaker pelosis own members think our Senate Republican bill is better than hers. Well, lets hope our democratic colleagues will fight let us make a law and all the enormous
Television and radio and then tv players and vcrs. Expanded into home office and then the internet came along and it was about the internet and connectivity. Weve shifted further and gone into solving problems of the world. Not to sound too grandiose, but if you look at the show, what we are talking about transportation problems. Driverless cars. F food production. Hunger. There is a lot of way of sensing crops. So you do not have to be there. Health care. My gosh, more solutions for health care. Sensors which tell you about yourself and give information to the doctor. Use the cloud. Then safety. Safety in the home, safety of everything. In an easy way, exploring things remotely. So you are taking a lot of problems the last several years can we are going to reduce them in the future. That is what really charges me up. And we have so many ways to go. The next several cess should be really interesting. 160,000 people attending. How many exhibitors . 3600 exhibitor. More than 100 than las
Double standard when comes to plussized clothing. We will have more on the retailers practices and why thousands of people are now calling for change. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. I am tori campbell. You can see on the live pictures wet out there. Good morning. I am dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steve, you have got things to talk about this morning. The rain looks like its winding down. Good totals from marin county and parts of the peninsula and San Francisco. Very foggy out there for some. So our system looks like its about done on the rain unless you are points east or in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Brentwood, discovery bay, altamont pass. Looks like its getting some rain. When that happens that can really be a mess. Santa cruz mountains. Still a little bit around scotts valley. Bolder creek, felton, a few locations. 61. Sausalito. 45. Livermore a third of an inch and redwood city a quarter. Mill valley points of. 59 from leslie. And decent rain there. Th
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 their performance for the veterans but their willingness to work cooperatively. There are some who do not like the nonhealth care v. A. Provisions anyway. They will have to get used to it. We will make this thing work and we will not put a square peg in a round hole. Today, the hearing is important to your report from the v. A. And contractors and later from the v is so vsos they risked their lives for each and everyone of us to be here today we can expect no less at the get the best health care.
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. Gone as well. There was a transition. There is no excuse for the plethora of problems, and the transition should have been much better, but was not. Va demonstrated that they were finally listening. All i was hearing was nothing but stonewall until finally sloan walked into the hearing, pulled out a new rule to make the number of miles driven which i think everyone in this committee appreciates and agrees with. I believe we are satisfactorily working toward the care you need. It will happen in the