My f. Y. 2014 execution meetings with the various accounts. I would just tell you these factors are coming together daily, and there are adjustments here in how much money is available and the rate at which those funds will last. So were doing the best we can. Two things we are doing here. Were trying to keep our operations going for as long as possible to where we are allowed by exception under the law to take kear of as many veterans as we can, for as long as possible. The other thing i have to do is make sure im taking care of our employees so that im not telling people that theyre going to be furloughed when in fact they arent going to be. Theres a period of time here, not to be alarmist, but at an appropriate moment when we know were going to have to were not going to have a budget, well have to take other steps, that we will inform our employees that they are going to be furloughed. The ones that have been furloughed, we have gone through this process. But its not just telling th
Gerri well, our top story tonight, a salmonella outbreak raising alarms about how safe are food is. The cdc blaming the government shut down for the slow response to link foster farms to the outbreak and is bringing for letting employees back to work. The company has a history of prior illnesses and was flanked as recently as last february causing at least 124 people to get sick. And while the usda is threatening to shut down three foster farms chicken plants, is enough being done . With more on this, executive director at the National Consumers league. Thank you for coming. This is one of those critical stories. The safety of the food supply. I want to work through a take talk of what has happened. This sure is not the first time weve been through this. All the way back in january 2010 Consumer Reports found 80 percent of the chicken they sampled had tested positive for salmonella. In may 2012, i recall of mislabeled turkey burgers. In februaryy2013, at least 124 people in 12 states g
Our cemeteries will be open for our normal hours, which is sunrise to sunset. You may see some of our maintenance standards go of it because we wont be able to maintain the high standards we would like to have, but thats all retrieval once we have a budget. But focus here is on taking their families on the most painful day for them and making sure they feel that their veteran is respected and has been accorded dignified burial. Thank you, mr. Secretary. I appreciate that assurance, and your current work to make sure thats available for our veterans eric and, obviously, their as well. Youve seen the images of other federal places and locations that have been barricaded to our veterans. But i want to make certain we keep the cemeteries open, and appreciate your work doing that. I yield back my time. I think it does go without saying that we all care about the veterans of this country. And what we do have is a failure to communicate, negotiate, and there has been a breakdown in the instit
Im happy to do that. I know we are still a very fluid situation, but we reached out and asked we were talking about pts and whether they could get health provided their City Employees of the Indian Health service would provide direct Health Service to travel citizens and would largely be unaffected by the shutdown and that they would continue to provide correct Clinical Health Care Services as well as referrals for Contract Services that cannot be provided through their clinic. So, again, we just are somewhat confused as to the comment that was made in regard to posttraumatic stress, which i think everybody on the committee is very concerned with pity and i get a. Your statement that you can hear it today paints the worst possible picture thats out there. But in your statement it does not talk about the hundreds of thousands of employees that are still working in the health care that is provided so we just want to be honest with the questions and comments are provided. Im not saying th
Because the prevailing party, i. E. The corporation that got the case dismissed, cannot impose any fees. Shouldterprising judge look for a crack in the american rule doctrine so in cases which are brought solely sessions brought solely for the economic interest of the lawyers , these i think in many cases are pretty apparent, a judge can maybe bad faith, but that thate a bit of a stretch, the plaintiff lawyers will have or someurse the company part of its legal expenses. There are judges who might be willing to do that. One of my pet peeves in the class action system, which we have not touched upon, the lone star. A big word that simply means, the number of hours you worked times the hourly fee. Book that some of the lawyers have fees that are out of the world. Only 24day on earth is hours, some of the lawyers bill on saturn time, where it is 704 billion hours. I have seen bills with 72 hours billed in single days. Not that uncommon. The lone star is on an honor system basis. Frankly,