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 shortfall may lead to hospital closures and employee furloughs. He testified as to why there was a budget problem and the possible ways to address it. This is just under three hours. Welcome to this hearing and i appreciate your attendance. We are gathered to discuss vas budget execution for this fiscal year. As the own now, the stakes have been raised considerably since the deputy secretaries testimony on june 5. Deputy secretary was asked this question. If congress does not ask on the 2015 budg
The scope of safeguards and there could be some extensions of authority that are appropriate as part of this agreement. The iaea will require continued Financial Support. The process for Financing Agency activities is to get approval i should wind back again. The iaea is a member of the United Nations family of organizations. As such, it has its own membership and has its own budget and a formula for assessing members in accordance with approved budget to carry out programs. To change that requires today the approval of the 35 governors which is very difficult under any circumstance so whether all 35 would be enough or whether it forcing it to a vote is unusually not the way that the agency would operate. So i would hope that part of the American Perspective on how it can make this effort succeed is to consider a contingency grant to the agency of something on the order of 50 million which sounds like a nice round number but it is much smaller than the i have to say, i dont know exactl
Shameful. Thank you, dr. Head. Let me just say also that the retaliation isnt limited to employees of the v. A. But also patients who step forward. And in colorado we had a case last year where a patient gave a statement to an Investigative Reporter and called the v. A. And talked to the Public Affairs individual for that particular visit and the Public Affairs person said you dont want to talk to this person. He is a patient undergoing psychiatric care. I sent a letter to the secretary of Veterans Affairs and never gotten a response to this date. Our thanks to the witnesses. You are now excused. Today we have had a chance to hear about problems that exist within the department of Veterans Affairs. With regards to whistleblower retaliation. With the testimony provided and the questions asked today i am dismayed at the failure of the department to adequately protect conscientious employees who seek to improve Services Provided to our veterans. As such this hearing was necessary to accom
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