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Vehicles parking in those space does. This is kind of a wooden structure thats parked in front of a parking meter there. Oh, sorry. So this, i understand, there is no jurisdiction for, so this this is another challenge that we need to address. Thank you. Chairman brinkman thank you. Next speaker, please. April prozer, followed by evan prozer, and then melody. I have a picture, too. I just put it on the thing . Chairman brinkman itll come up. There you go. I just want to i guess youd call it a re...

Chairman brinkman i do appreciate how we solve for one place and other people are affected. Director borden . Director borden would think i would imagine because what theyve described, does the program not apply to people that are already in the pipeline . A couple of months we approved for a reduction in fees for people to be able to pay that was for the parking tickets, but im just wanting to understand if that program is applicable. That gentleman is 600 behind in parking fees. Im just wonder...

Choice of language about the problem. Not at all brink bri. Chairman brinkman i do appreciate how we solve for one place and other people are affected. Director borden . Director borden would think i would imagine because what theyve described, does the program not apply to people that are already in the pipeline . A couple of months we approved for a reduction in fees for people to be able to pay that was for the parking tickets, but im just wanting to understand if that program is applicable. ...

Was talking like god, youre why you let this happen, because i want my home. My car, its not my car, its my home. So i was i was decided to use drugs if i didnt get my car back, right, because thats all i have, right . So i would like i was decided but you know, i thank god you no listen to me, so i decided this person who listened to me allowed me to take my car back. So i own what can i say, iomy life to her. If it wasnt this, i would be on the streets, using drugs or stealing or whatever. Tha...

Secretarys began the enhancements last month we have seen a real stepingup, that frankly together with the events in europe including paris of actually leading to much greater willingness on the part of European Countries in particular to extend their willing tons share willingness to share information. To the extent that you can in an unclassified seting can you existing databases is gathered by allys and partners . It would be appropriate in another seting as to how the information is dissemin...

The hearing will come to order. We are here to discuss the president s fiscal year 2016 budget request for the department of Veterans Affairs. Mr. Secretary, welcome to the committee. Understand that your testimony will be a little bit different today than what we are accustomed to with reference to chart to help us better understand what you are seeing in terms of the challenges that lay ahead and i would say that is indeed a welcome change. So too is the open as you have had with me with membe...

I met a veteran who has been out two years and 10 disability but the point is he cant get his paperwork from dod. What are we doing . We have asked this question for years. Its a great question. I have to say secretary hagel and i are totally aligned that we want to have a seamless handoff from the department of defense to the va. Thats why we have instituted programs like cap while the person is on active duty and allison can talk about that. Congressman brown some good news to report on this f...

24th state to have one. The phone lines are open. Also, send us a tweet or a facebook post, or send us an e mail. Heres what the president said yesterday in michigan. [video clip] these right to work law dont have to do with economics. They have everything to do with politics. What they are really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money. [cheers and applause] you only have to look to michigan, where workers were instrumental in reviving the Auto Industry and to see how union...

Experiences. Guest the federal government has tried to roll up waste and fraud, but when taxpayer money is involved it is different than a private enterprise. The ability for fraud to creep into Government Programs financed by taxes is much tighter than private enterprises because shareholders have their own money that they invest. There are a certain amount of problems. For instance, medicare, probably in the order of 60 billion per year in a wasteful and fraudulent payments. This is a huge num...

Duty as a congress, and certainly our duty as a part of this committee to make sure hat that check we figuratively wrote to those veterans never comes back marked insufficient funds. And to make sure that that check, the benefits of that check dont come back redeemed in a delayed fashion. So we have done what is necessary to make sure that they get their benefits, that he they get them in a timely manner, that the claims backlog is eliminated, and that we facilitate whatever it takes to make sur...