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Veterans Affairs Department officials and the mayo clinic testified on efforts to curb opioid abuse by patients and Veterans Affairs health care facilities. And to stop the theft and sale of drugs by employees of the va and prevention efforts. A House Committee held last weeks hearing. Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome everyone who has joined us today. Today we will address the lack of oversight in internal controls regarding controlled substances within the Vete...

Theft and sale of drugs by agency workers. The House Veterans Affairs Committee Held this hearing late last month. Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome everyone who has joined us today. Today we will address the lack of oversight in internal controls regarding controlled substances within the Veterans Health administration that leave facilities open to Drug Diversion and veteran harm. The diversion of drugs from v. A. Health care facilities is an incredible Patient ...

Contained much of this high grade marijuana and cocaine. Two kilos of cocaine and approximately a block of about 50 pounds of marijuana. After Police Responded and found the second box they began checking Surveillance Video and soon learned another robbery occurred outside of Freight Company an hour earlier and was never reported. This man picked up the shipment, walked outside and was robbed by two men inside of this minivan. What is in the box was unclear but police would like to speak to the ...

20,660 a year to 50,440. The Senate Small Business Committee Held a hearing on the new labor rules. Senator david vitter chairs this hour 10 minute hearing. Good morning, everybody, and thanks for joining us today for the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee hearing to examine the obama administrations proposal to more than double the current salary threshold under the fair labor standard acts overtime exemption for administrative, executive, and professional employees. Were goin...

Like labor, they may have to cut Critical Community services to reduce labor costs. This is really unacceptable, especially for rural and poor areas that rely on Different Services provided by nonprofits. After hearing from many concerned workers and Business Owners, i urged secretary perez to extend the Public Comment period to allow Small Business owners and employees the opportunity to examine the proposed rule and comment carefully. Shortly afterward, the office of advocacy wrote a similar P...

Job cuts for the colleges employees. Senator alex ander joined senator tim scott to author s2707, the protecting workplace advancement and opportunity act, which would prevent the department of labor from finalizing president obamas proposed rule. I strongly support these efforts to move forward with the bill and want to commend their work on this important issue. Along with the Small Business Administrations Office of advocacy and members of congress from the house and senate, i have raised sev...

Have inhouse capability. I think having both is really really good. Weve enjoyed and really really appreciated director pawns and see them as experts in making sure were doing it in the right way and in the way thats most productive. Were experts in Economic Development and appreciate that partnership to help us do better we want to continue to strengthen the expertise we have. Okay thank you. And i would just say that i would really commend oewd ive seen the changes throughout the years where y...

Is it chinese or spanish whats the date for that . Approximately 6 months from now approximately. As you know every time weve talked about this 4 years ago i hate to bring that up but thats been the approximate reality around this conversation so let me provide some Additional Information were on schedule right now were building the English Version and as you can see we have the physical hardware in place and so the next step is building out the template thats going to be used by the various dep...

The hearing of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime and terrorism will come to order. Im expecting that my Ranking Member senator Lindsey Graham will be here shortly. I just saw him on the cspan screen. I know hes on the floor and not here. But i have permission from his staff to proceed. He will join us as soon as his schedule permits. I also want to recognize in the audience ed pigano. Its good to have him back in a different capacity. We are having a hearing today that is entitled, econ...

General keith alexander, until recently, the head of nsa and of Cyber Command at the pentagon, has characterized the cyber theft of American Intellectual property as ill quote the greatest transfer of wealth until history. And of course, were on the losing end of it. But no estimate can fully capture the real impact of trade secret theft. When other countries and foreign businesses steal our trade secrets, they are stealing our ideas. They are stealing our innovation. Most importantly, they are ...