[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person at those appearing distantly. We look forward to the testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the thirdparty administrators are in administering the mission act. Also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation as well. Almost every member of our committee though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us almost every member of the committee will be participating. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title i under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs, relating to the Veterans Community care program and the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers. Io i scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While v. A. Officials were invited to part
Next, the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee examines caregiving provisions under the Va Mission Act signed into law on june 2018. Almost two and a half hours. Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses appearing in person and those appearing distantly. We look forward to their testimony to get a better idea of where the department of Veterans Affairs are in administering the missions act. We are also interested in learning more about the caregivers implementation as well. Member of our participating. Be hearing isf todays the implementation of title i under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs relating to Veterans Community care programs and the program of comprehensive assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because my dissatisfying dissatisfaction with the implementation of the mission. Department chose to decline the invitation. This committee and the be a share a common goal to pass the mission in 2018 to bett
Wildfires ravaging the west hurricanes pounding the east election that is distracting all of us everywhere pandemic pelting the Middle America and all of that stuff is just here theres a whole world of woe out there things we should be paying attention to lets talk about it with john siddle leidys geo political strategist truly trilogy advisers john is a diplomacy consultant to the apartment of state glad to have you back john china is always looming large. And our relationship is fraught while every nation is staggering to recover from the cove ahead chinese g. D. P. Is actually growing and thats conspicuous that they attribute that to their early aggressive response to cove it is the usa disadvantaged accordingly. Holland 1st of all its good to be back with you and your audience im so glad were starting with this very important question because this is in many ways about what the future of the global order will look like and a lot of this is predicated on how china and frankly the Ch
Under Veterans Mission act, program of assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace. While officials were invited to discuss the critical programs they oversee, the department chose to decline that invitation. This committee and the va shared a common goal to pass the mission act in 2018 to better serve veterans and their families and we continue to Work Together to address important issues for our nations veterans. I would expect them to be here with this to share all theyve accomplished since the va was transformed with this legislation and discuss what needs to be done to make improvements. The va is an integral part of in dialog, which is why i planned a whole subsequent engagements with the va officials to discuss title 1 implementation. Id be remiss not to recognize the unprecedented challenges this have year due to the covid19 pandemic. The dedicated staff on the v as front line deserve our thanks for fulfilling the Fourth
Capitol and head to kenosha, wisconsin. Today in the bays tracie potts is live for us in washington. I know the president creating new controversy ahead of this trip. Reporter well, he did, marcus and laura, because overnight, just hours before leaving on this trip the president did an interview with fox news where he compared Police Shootings to golf. He said that sometimes the two are very similar. He also had some comments about black lives matter. He compared them to marxists and we are continuing to follow the president s trip today. He is expected to survey riot damage to the meet with police. Xpected to talk to the family of jacob blake whose shooting touched off all of that and also were hearing from the president about 17yearold Kyle Rittenhouse who is facing murder charges now after killing two people and shooting another involved in the chaos. He was trying to get away from them, i guess, it looks like, and he fell. And then they very violently attacked him. The violence wer