Screeria nigeria. Rs staffing and then the white house news briefing and then recent Data Security breaches at banks and retailers. A hearing today looked at staffing shortages at Veterans Affairs hospitals. Witnesses representing va doctors and nurses talked about the need for more medical professionals. This house Veterans Affairs subcommittee hearing is two hours. This subcommittee will come to order. Before we begin, i would like to ask for unanimous consent for my friend and colleague from pennsylvania to sit in on todays hearings. Without objection, so ordered. Thank you for joining us today for todays subcommittee hearing, overcoming barriers to more efficient and effective va staffing. As a physician who worked at fee for service at the iran mountain Va Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center for about 20 years i know how privileged it can be to care for veterans on a daily basis. Regardless of how fulfilling va employment often is, the departments ability to effectively
Dashcam ra dashcamera evidence. We have not. In colorado the dashcameras are used routinely by the Colorado State patrol. It is left up to the individual officers when they want to use individual cameras. From a prosecutors point of view this hasnt been a difficult tool to employ . No the with respect to dash cameras, senator. The complexity is logarithms when i understand. Mr. Henderson the only reason were probably having this hearing is because of these private videos that have shocked everybody. You agree with that . I do. In those cases, were glad we have video evidence. I mean youve got the North Charleston case thats in litigation so ill be careful of what i say. But in that case only god knows what the story would have been. Youre absolutely right. Its these private videos that have really motivated the public debate. As i said earlier you deserve great credit for convening this conversation. On balance, if you could get the right protocols to protect privacy and make sure the
Think, gravitateing to interest groups, so a show that might be you know, an average show for us on one of the Branded Networks becomes a top show in a nonlinear network because those who want alien programming find it, search it, find it, and watching it versus the way that we schedule our networks is very different. I think, you know were a brand we believe in brands first and foremost. Were marketers, which people underestimate our power in marketing, and we are going to go to the platforms that we can create new branded experiences for our consumers, and so were going to have, you know, our wonderful linear business and we believe in this ecosystem and we believe in the business, and we have a great relationship with our partners in that respect, and theres also an opportunity for us to embrace creatives in a digital experience as well and do nontraditional things that maybe would not work on linear. I dont know that theres, you know, what works over here works over there necessari
Michigan has not had a physician on staff for at least two years. Va has attributed to that, to the difficulty of recruiting physicians in rural areas. While i understand that difficulty, i think vas overtly bureaucratic hiring process is a significant factor in its facility inability to recruit a physician for multiple years running. The amount of vrmc, the parent facility was unable to post the opening for a physician directly. Instead, all job postings are filtered through a Human Resource office in milwaukee, wisconsin, several hours away in another state. Facility job postings are one through the one office in milwaukee. Whats more, despite repeated assurances by the officials that the department was actively recruiting for a position we call it the sioux in michigan i have yet to see a single advertisement for the position. Va employees retiring or hiring has risen every year since 2009. Survey results ranked 18 of 19 large agencies overall, 18 of 19 ineffective leadership. 19 of
In, i believe, five in between 2005 and 2008 and that certainly assisted Border Patrol in expeditiously constructioning hundreds of miles of fence along the southwest border. There were legal challenges brought to halt certain border projects. But when dhs would show Waiver Authority, the courts would dismiss those challenges. I will note it is not absolute. Besides the constitutional limitations, you cannot waive the constitution. Another thing is that it refers specifically to the construction of barriers and roads. There is certainly some question as to whether it would apply to tactical infrastructure that is not a barrier or a road. Like sensors or cameras. Dhs when it has exercised Waiver Authority to border projects, it has often mentioned things like radio towers and cameras in addition to the fence. But whether Waiver Authority could be used exclusively for a say, a project to install towers or sensors along a particular stretch of the border dhs has never done that and that w