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Last year, Congress Passed a major expansion to the g. I. Bill. Expanded eligibility for who can use those benefits and how long they can use them. It boosts some payments. Those go into effect in august. The v. A. Is getting prepared to roll those out and inform students eligible. That is going to be one of the biggest changes. I dont think a lot of veterans will see disruption to benefits based on decisions made last year. There were some proposals to cut benefits. Veteransans but advocates fo...

We are working hard to collect every penny that we can. I am out of time, apparently. Mrs. Titus. Thank you mr. Chairman. A lot of that money leftover though, was used quietly to pay for the continuation of the denver project, wasnt it . Are you talking about the money from the treasury for the last five years . Wherever you found that. Its not available to us. We cant use that money. We thought we could, and its money that essentially becomes, as i said deobligated as expenses come in and also ...

At the v. A. Have any accountability or any responsibility at all for this happening . If so, how much . Of course we do. As was laid out in the last hearing on the same subject just a few weeks ago, there are many reasons that we are where we are. I think we all share some of the response ability. We have a new program called the Choice Program. We have seven different ways of providing in the community. Im sorry. Did you want to interrupt . My time is limited. You have described with the layou...

Did you have a sense at all of whether the cabinet secretaries were speaking to the whole house in their briefing, or maybe just to the concerns of a crosssection of democrats who would be the ones to protect the white house . It was a classified discussion of a very important treaty. I dont see any other motives except to exploited in the way that would encourage us to vote for. Was there any part of the briefing that was contentious or disrespectful . One of your colleagues says john kerry was...

I gave them my Insurance Information and they came back and they said, we dont know. I would like to know how common that is and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs. I might add, i had at the time a high deductible, so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part d, when i noted it in the biography, mr. White was involved with in 2003, has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the...

Program or were gutting the Choice Program is absolutely positively wrong, proven by the data. 6 billion weve overspent 6 billion this year in in Community Care. Community care is absolutely essential. I think the issue is your hepatitis c drug, 1. 5 billion or whatever the number is for hepatitis c is part of the issue, and i dont think any one of us thinks that we should not be providing that drug. In no budget submission that i can recall was it discussed about that, although im hoping that s...

Again, there was still no mention of a Hospital Systemwide shutdown. And finally at the hearing on june 25th itself there was no mention of a Hospital System shutdown coming in august. Mr. Secretary, im disappointed about the slow, painstaking revelation of this crisis by the department thats led by you. I understand their excuses as to why we are in it this position, however, somebody somewhere took their eye off the ball. Just as congress established a cap on spending for the denver project th...

The senate was in session on sunday. They did authorize the export import bank. By now, current funding for transportation projects is set to expire by the end of the week without congressional action. You can watch the senate live on cspan2. Coming next, Robert Mcdonald testifies before the house of Veterans Affairs Committee Full top been question and answer with robert gordon. At 7 00, washington journal is live with this mornings headlines. Robert mcdonald warned that a 2. 5 billion budget s...

Leaders are not allowing lengthy debate. Later this week theyll take up a bill funding defense related programs, also for energy, water, legislative branch, v. A. , military construction. Votes later. Live coverage now here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord our god, thank you for giving us another day. As they are returning to the capitol, please be with the members of this pe...

Really need to adopt watch the rest of this event in the cspan Video Library at cspan. Org. Type center for American Progress in the search box. Going to leave and go live to remark some House Veterans Affairs Committee Chair ted poe, some john mccain, james mattis and the mr. Secretary David Shulkin. All living at the American Legion conference here in washington. In deuteronomy it is written, a strong and courageous do not fear or be in dread of them. For it is the lord our god who goes with y...