Other health professionals, how do we bring those people into our system . Health care is certainly a major issue, but that is not the only challenge that our new secretary will face. We have the Veterans Benefits administration, which is now in the midst of one of the largest transformations in modern history. That is going from a paper system to a paperless system. In my view they have done a good job, but problems remain. We want to make sure that in that transformation, as we bring down the wait times for benefits claims, that we do it in an accurate way. That is a challenge that you are going to have to face. Scandals in the modern history of this country has been the number of Homeless Veterans that we have seen all over the country. In recent years, general general general this,ki played a role in that number has gone down. That is another challenge that you are going to face. Let me close by suggesting that i think that mr. Mcdonald brings to us two very important qualities. He
States just this year, entered without permission in the Immigration Court system. What happens to these guys . The new people would have a status. When thed send back to United States government did ins in vietnam, in haiti, parts of africa. Remove people from a situation that is dangerous, unsafe in a variety of ways, whether it is politics, country conditions, or some other capacity, but if you open all of those other questions, in addition to el salvador and guatemala. There are two other countries at play here who also have tens of thousands of citizens in the United States who also have temporary protective status from years ago. Ballsis a lot of sort of in the air and which one you pick up will determine the future potentially for one small group or a larger group, but not necessarily the whole group, if that makes sense. You are addressing a piece of the puzzle, but it could potentially create another wave in a different capacity. It is so unknown, i think, at this point, you w
Support hamas strategy and the to en thetion set conflict. For years, we warned community that hezbollah was amassing tens of thousands of rockets and missiles. Mit with silence. Will you continue to remain silent . That hamase told you was building a terrorist strong hold in gaza and we called on the International Community to condemn the rocket fire. Silence. Et with for years we warned of the impending escalation and you ignored us. The hardest thing to see is what eyes. Front of your israel is in the front line of radicallistgainst islamist terrorism. The buyer civilized world has a the outcome, so it must support israels right to defend citizens. Israels fight against terrorism today will determine how we live tomorrow. Do nothing and to say nothing, to support our efforts the tyranny and terror is to invite tyranny and terror into our own back yard. The International Community must stand together and speak soether and prevail together that all people everywhere can live in freedo
Admitted v. A. Needed an dditional 975 million for 2005 and 2 billion more for 2006. Even when v. A. Accurately indicates its needs, omb passed back a lower number in the final budget. Thats why dav and our partners have testified over the past decade that v. A. s medical care and construction budgets were inadequate. In the prior 10 years the funding provided for medical care was more than 7. 8 billion less than what they recommended. For next year we project it will be 2 billion less than needed. Heres what the Congressional Budget Office said in a recent report. And current law for 2015 cbos base line projections for 2016 v. A. s appropriations for health care are not projected to keep pace with growth in the Patient Population or growth in per capita spending for health care. Meaning that waiting times will tend to increase. In addition, over the 10 years of funding appropriated for construction has been about 9 billion less than what was needed. And thats based on v. A. s own inte
We want to get this done as quickly as possible. I think it would be appropriate to say that we would like to have everything done by the end of the day. In regard to the Conference Community signing off on the report. And the mechanism as to who goes first is not as critical. As other pieces. Thell step out and say house will probably go first, but that hasnt been decided. Is it isportant thing done as quickly as possible. That your view is that congress is dysfunctional, nothing getting done did i say that . You did. Going just from last week, it was a pretty tense moment at the end of last week. When you give us a sense of what it took to get here . It could be instructive. Congress is so divided right now. We have to work through these things. At the end of the day, what is important am i understood . Are you understood . This is the veterans of the United States. We have an obligation to do it. There has not been one time that senator sanders nor our staff have continued to commun