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And there are so many other things that go into what quality of life really means, how often do you move and your spouse get a job, that sort of thing. In terms of quality of service, were hearing more and more from our people that theyre sort of surprised by all this. What really matters to them more than keeping this high rate of growth is they want to fight in a modern and ready force. They want to go to work every day, and they want to have parts in the bin where they can repair the thing th...

To receive Mental Health care at a Outpatient Clinic in pennsylvania. He was told he would be unable to get an appointment for six months. When that employee left another va employee lean in to tell the veteran that if he told her he was thinking of killing himself she would be able to get him appointment much sooner in three months instead of six. Luckily that veteran wasnt considering suicide. But what about those veterans who are . How many of the tens of thousands veterans that va admitted h...

For our first panel, and we will now call of our second panel. Vikki so much, both of you, for your testimony. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we now welcome our second panel for witnesses, outside with his socalled, retired army general john kelly junior, the chairman of the board of the military Officers Association of america. Retired army general gordon sullivan, president and chief executive officer of the association of the United States army. Retired air force Master S...

We want to know how long would you make an exception for the renewable fuel standard . Until we are on equal footing. If you look at the subsidies over out there to oil and within the Energy Industry we need to be on equal footing. I am someone that will continue to support the rfs. I grew up on a southwest iowa farm and my father is a proud farmer. 16 jobs are created by the iowa farmer and that is why i am so proud to have the endorsement of the iowa farm bureau. I will continue to support the...

The first word processer, the first smartphone, the first car, the first plane, it has this connotation of a breakthrough investigation thats in essence a quantum leap. And my book is about how we as a society need to be innovating more and how the really significant innovations that move the dial are these breakthrough zero to one companies. Host is Silicon Valley a zero to one, does that have a zero to one mindset . Guest theres, theres definitely Silicon Valley at this point is the center of ...

Minutes. Now ladies and gentlemen please rise for the National Anthem sung by diane from enzi oc. [applause] ladies and gentlemen please welcome citizenship chairman michael reiser. [applause] diane ty you should know is not only a talented performer and artist, she is also a very talented fundraiser and her connection to the National Conference on citizenship is working with our service year project. You may have heard the term the franklin project. Its all a line so we appreciate your efforts ...

Quorum call quorum call quorum call s mr. Chambliss mr. President , i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with and i be allowed to speak in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. President , i rise today along with my colleague from New Hampshire s been very focused, as havere i, on this issue of the release of detainees from guantanamo and the fact that we know that not only are there dangerous individuals there that should not be released, but we also know that these ...

Those are some of the things that the Contingency Fund is about. It is a fund we have submitted for because we want to make sure there is a block that the funding will not be used only as needed, but we want to plan for things we cant exactly predict right now. Youve asked for some money for fda for vaccines. Would you speed it up, bring more people into the process, are there steps in an emergency situation like this that there is a way to go through them more quickly or go around them to get t...

Instead of an effective response, what we have witnessed, i believe these past few months from various agency has been confusing and at times contradictory plans. For example, the cdcs guidance to hospitals has been a moving target. This uncertainty may have exposed Health Care Professionals to unnecessary risks. The administration also has sent mixed messages on the issue of quarantine. While the president has discouraged straight quarantine rules, defense secretary hagel has prudently put in p...

Very direct and grilling questions of witnesses that would come before our committee. Sometimes there would be a tense moment. But ralph always had something funny or a story to tell that broke the ice. Youve seen a number of members of the texas delegation here today, particularly the republican delegation and every thursday, we have lunch together. Talk about whats good for texas. But what was always a thing that we always looked forward to, we couldnt wait until ralph got there so that we cou...