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Im not aware that its not comparable paid to dod. Ill have to look at that. I would appreciate that. Thanks. And want to know if thats true. Has the va considered offering other incentives such as loan repayment or increase pay for va providers willing to work in rural and underserved areas . We have not looked at that, congressman. Thats interesting. My understanding is the rural areas, rural areas and underserved areas, is typically well, we dont know enough about the investigation to know how...

Meeting this morning to subpoena two sets of documents from the va that were longstanding requests from the committee, but yesterday va delivered information regarding the removal of six ses employees for the past two fiscal years. This request has been made by multiple members of this committee, including myself, and multiple hearings going back to february. This morning va delivered the second set of documents which i requested via letter in october of 2013. The documents cover the Performance...

Island and for the last 20 years have kept you working, but this downturn closed your company or pushed you out, those skills are out of date. Good workers, long work history, they need not only the help to retrain but they certainly need the help to get from day to day to day until they get back into the work force. With that, madam president , let me again commend and thank the sponsors and the authors of this legislation and yield the floor. Mr. Isakson i note the absence of a quorum. The pre...

37 billion and created helped Small Businesses and created jobs. It also helps us pay down the federal deficit. It has generated over 1. 057 billion returned to the u. S. Treasury, so it has actually helped us pay down the federal debt. So my colleagues all of a sudden are having amnesia why they supported the exim bank or not coming forward to support it now need to remember what a vital tool this is to the u. S. Economy. Madam president . The presiding officer time has expired. Ms. Cantwell ma...

Multijurisdictional in terms of peoples roles and obligations but at its center is making sure that victim gets as much information as possible as quickly as possible and fully understands that waiting to think about whether or not her brutal rapist will ever have a difficult interview with someone in uniform or whether her brutal rapists will ever have a fear of actually going to prison has everything to do with her willingness to not only come forward but come forward quick quickly. I dont thi...

Overall i do not have that number, but i will take it for the record. Okay. The ig has not completed their investigation, so we really probably do not have the final number right now. How much of the we talk someone about how the incentives may be should be based on outcomes rather than these metrics. I am targeting down on why the metrics, we lost control of them i heard testimony that had to do with technology, that we did not have we had a scheduling system that was easy to gain. Is that your...

Reestablish our integrity. I think we can do that, and i think we can salvage a system which does provide good care, and we can make that system provide timely access. I am stunned that you would call this, with all the information thats come out, and i dont think were at the bottom of all this yet, that you would call this a good system. I think its absolutely stunning. And i think that the Veterans Administration is the most mismanaged agency of the federal government, and i think that it is n...

He did say whether it was a physical, weather was the russians themselves to pull the trigger or russian separatist trained by russians its all the same and all goes back ultimately to Vladimir Putin. So that is an indication that based on somebody who has reviewed the classified intelligence assessment that president putin is responsible and that is why we are, targeting russia for the actions. You are 100 certain, have no doubt a . Thats sort of assessment would be something delivered by the i...

Before we began this morning and want to recognize some participants that are in the audience with us from the American Legion boys nation of joined us here today. All will you address to fund the debt of gratitude and stepping up as my Ranking Member has said during the very trying times for the department, and we appreciate you being here. He is accompanied by mr. Denny pommel, direct deputy undersecretary for benefits of the department of veterans affairs. Assistant director undersecretary fo...

Additional authorities . Any authorities being granted to help speed the process along . Other than asking the facilities to look at their processes and the efficiency of their processes, see if they can identify internal capacity, and if they can not, to let us know what resources they need to provide that kair in the community. That process has occurred. The facilities have made their requests and to date. We have distributed approximately 312 million of which approximately, 152 had been oblig...