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Who wonder if the honorable work is worth it anymore. See this event live tonight at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. And now, the utilities lawmakers on caple tall hill. They testified before the state public Works Community including delaware and wyoming and colorado, and chairman John Barrasso serves as is the rea n Ranking Member. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. President trump has made improving the nations infrastructure a top priority. Infrastructure is critical to the nations prosperity. ...

Without their integral involvement. I think from the challenges, the article does that, naming them, talking about them, and trying to understand where theres common ground, theres difficulties figuring out, ultimately with a goal of Getting Services to people who need them, from a Public Health evidence based services to people that need them is the end game we want. And then lastly data, we took a cursory look for today. Id like to do more on that, i think thats critical. Mark . Where you live...

Projects that have lagged behind the target in particular and those do happen to be our water supply projects which is front and sent ner the discussion right now. So the concern is well taken and i want to assure you that were going to bring these projects to successful completion. I would like to add with those projects, we knew about those hazards quite some time ago, and so the progression of time is getting a bit unmanageable in my point of view. Can i just respond to her. Keep in mind, the...

Supply projects which is front and sent ner the discussion right now. So the concern is well taken and i want to assure you that were going to bring these projects to successful completion. I would like to add with those projects, we knew about those hazards quite some time ago, and so the progression of time is getting a bit unmanageable in my point of view. Can i just respond to her. Keep in mind, there were 80 so projects that weve been marching and completing and, you know, making some major...

Is to see to it that veterans get world cap worldclass health care and they get it in a timely way. However we do that the important thing is to get it done. We had some bumps i have met with some of our private contractors and i appreciate those meetings and their confidence in the job that they can do. They may not have been cooperating before. See to it that the two are working seamlessly and if they cant, they will never work. You have to understand their contracts are not just subject to th...

We have a vote on the floor which should be over in the next ten minutes. I will talk a little bit and tell you what i want you to know. I will start with testimony from sloan gibson. Make the note that his staff said that was okay. I want to take extra time because this is an important hearing. Last year culminating with the passage of the veterans choice bill problems in raleigh, denver come orlando and answers that were in completed for understandable reasons. Just left about a year early. Go...

In income. So instead of standing in the corner and figuring out how to bring a trade bill to the floor they ought to be fixing equal pay for equal work, they ought to be fixing Student Loans for our students, they ought to be passing a highway bill, they ought to be increasing the minimum wage, and they ought to deal with currency fairness because our trading partners, they play with their currency in order to push forward their products. But oh, no. That is not on the agenda. We could have an ...

At the same time, weve had a large increase in care in the community, choice hasnt worked as intended. Here are some things were doing to fix it. On april 24th we changed the measure from Straight Line to driving distance. Using the fastest route. This roughly doubles the number of veterans eligible for the 40mile program under choice. Excuse me. But there is much more to do. A followon mailing to all eligible veterans is about to go out. Weve Just Launched a major change in internal processes t...

Message where it needs to be delivered, that the time is critical and i look forward to being part of the solution. Thank you very much, mike, for your comments and your contributions. Ill take it a little bit out of order now and take my law partner and former member of congress, state of georgia, congressman Jack Kingston to give his perspective on some of the things theyre doing down in georgia, particularly in the port project area and hes now with us, with these projects probably had someth...

Captioning performed by vitac forward to hearing first from sloan gibson. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Chairman isakson Ranking Member blumenthal and the committee, were committed to making the Choice Program work and to providing veterans timely and geographically accessible care, using care in the community whenever necessary. Ill talk shortly about what were doing and the help that we need from congress to make all of that happen. First, i want to talk very briefly about access to care. Most morn...