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Commission. This subcommittee and clean air and Nuclear Energy is chaired by senator Shelley Moore capital of west virginia. [inaudible] i would like to welcome all of our witnesses today. A particular welcome to the alumnus of the committee, mr. Merrifield to tell me he began here 1986, i think. I appreciate you returning. As each witness knows you have five minutes for an oral statement and that we will take questions. We are here today to examine and exciting topic and that is advanced Nuclea...

The service wins Action Network holds a discussion at 1 p. M. Eastern here at cspan3. Senator ted cruz campaigns in indiana today. Well have live coverage of a rally hes holding at the Johnson County fair grounds in indianapolis. That starts at 6 30 p. M. On cspan. Indiana holds its president ial primary on may 3rd. Cspans road to the white house coverage continues later today as Ohio Governor john kasich campaigns in the washington, d. C. Suburb of rockville, maryland ahead of the primary. Live...

His proposal for reforming the federal budget process. The Veterans Affairs undersecretary for health testified at a house hearing today about his departments efforts to improve veterans access to health care and reduce wait times. Congressman jeff miller chairs the committee. Thiss just over two hours. Hearing will come to order. Would you like to welcome everyone to todays hearing entitled, a continued assessment of delays in veterans access to health care. This hearing marks two years since t...

Access to care. With that i yield to the Ranking Member, ms. Brown for any opening remark she may have. Thank you, mr. Chairman. For calling this hearing today. Following the wait time scandal of phoenix, Congress Passed and president obama signed the veterans access choice and accountability act of 2014. In it, we mandated there be an independent assessment of veterans healthcare. The assessment highlight many of the things we hear from our veterans. We hear that va provides excellent healthcar...

Not be here right now and thats reflective upon that leadership. And i dont think there is a day that mr. Neffenger doesnt come to work and just he didnt get full disclosure when he took the appointment, probably, and god bless him for being here and hes trying to cheerlead this. Thats why were at where were at. We did not have a plan b when we put in plan a. Mr. Lynch mr. Chairman, i want to thank you for your indulgence. Mr. Mica let me turn to mr. Palmer. Mr. Palmer mr. Rhoades, i believe you...

Thank you bernie. [chatter] [chatter] i love you bernie. [cheering] during campaign 2016, cspan takes the road to the white house as if all the candidates on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. Cspans washington journal live every day with the news and policy issues that impact you. Morning, sunday theyre joined by phone to talk about an aviation bill pushed to the senate this week it designed to overhaul the federal aviation and bolsteron Airport Security and offer Consumer Protections for frus...

Profile somali people, im disgusted by it. Going native . Im truly disgusted by it. Ms. Norton now, this committee the house unanimously passed a bill called the federal employee antidiscrimination act to help hold managers accountable. You know, the kinds of retaliation that would happen below your level perhaps is apparently better taken care of. I was an original cosponsor. It looks like most of the committee was. This is this bill, by the way, is pending in the senate. It hasnt passed the se...

Radio. Tuesday, ted cruz of texas announced Carly Fiorina as his running mate if he wins the republican nomination. The announcement took place in indianapolis. This is just over 45 minutes. [applause] god bless the great state of indiana. Elections are about choices. The Republican Party faces a choice today. Indiana and america, i believe, want to unite behind a positive, optimistic,forwardlooking, conservative Campaign Based on real policy solutions to the problems. [applause] and the America...

Most recently, on whether president george w. Bush lied to get us into the iraq war. They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none, and they knew there were none. I dont know if he lied or not, he could have lied. Maybe he did. Maybe he didnt. I guess youd have to ask him. And there are many other examples. How is any of this telling it like it is . On afghanistan, i did mean iraq. I think you have to stay in afghanistan for a while because of the fact youre right ...

To keep folks incarcerated. This age of mass incarceration is violating our Core Principles in so many areas. We proclaim to be the land of onedom and liberty to have of four people imprisoned goes against our core ideals, and now is the time we need a revolution when i comes to issues of crime and punishment. Nowe are at a place right where we are several decades into focusing on punishment and being more punitive. It is a billion dollar people their odds of returning their investment, and im g...