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Think, would have made things clearer and simpler and responsibility for the immigration mess were in now lies with congress not with you, and with congress for failing to pass the senates bipartisan bill, which i was strong supporter of. I would like to talk about cybersecurity. There is going to be cyberweek on the senate floor. There is work in the house. We have bipartisan bills pending on information sharing between federal agencies and the Big Communications providers. On Agency Public rep...

Forgive me for turning this into a lightning round. But general clark we talked , about systemic financial risk. I wish we had five minutes to devote to this. Were basically out of time, but you talked about a book you wrote that discuss this and maybe you can give us the kind of elevator version of it. Gen. Clark dont wait for the next war. We create an awful lot of debt in the Financial System and we havent addresses the systemic issue. Still hundreds of trillions of dollars of derivatives bas...

Other candidate enters the president ial race, former governor mike huckabee. He will announce from arkansas. We will have live coverage in about an hour. Later today, precision medicine. That hearing begins at 2 30 p. M. Eastern. We will have that life for you as well on its east end. Later this afternoon Hillary Clinton in las vegas speaking to students at Rancho High School about immigration policy. Remarkable partnerships, iconic women. If she did save the portrait of washington. It who ever...

That definition . Its easier to say you can have competitive effort. Whatever it comes to the domestic budget we can do this but we have to get back on this. We can do it cheaper by doing things this way. Whenever we try to cut the budget, its not doing it differently and getting the same results. Its always we have to cut something. Why is it always the we have to cut Something Else instead of growing the ceiling. Host is that your concern with just the republican budget . Caller its both. As a...

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...

Affairs adviser for concerned veterans for america. Joseph violante, National Legislative director of disabled american veterans. Mr. Bill raush who is missing in action right now. Or awol. Political director for iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, and carlos fuentes, senior legislative associate for the veterans of foreign wars. Well start with you, mr. Butler. Chairman, Ranking Member blumenthal, and distinguished members of the committee, on behalf of our national commander, michael ham...

Public of the need for validity of a broad program. The concept delineating between the number of people affected or how targets are picked, versus the program itself, i think is valuable, and it gets to a question that i would like a from everybody on. There is a trust problem that now exists, for whatever series of reasons. An example of a concern that i at least have was revealed through a usa today piece that came out last month that revealed that the dea had been conducting a Metadata Colle...

Disease and you dont have money to treat them and, frankly, i think its time to talk to the manufacturer of this drug and ask them if they are being very generous in providing these drugs, hepatitis c drugs, for free. Very generous. For whatever reasons they are doing that. But maybe at a time when their profits are soaring, maybe they might want to respect the veterans of this country who might die or become much sicker because they dont have access to this wonderful product. And as senator blu...

The staff they do have is poorly managed. Reviewers found between 2009 and 2013, there was a 4year period in which direct supervision of personnel lapsed. In august we sat down with director debby rafell. She said permit reform would be a top pyriority. I would suggest and agree our permitting program is not operating as effectively as it could. Reporter critics are not satisfied with what they call continued lip service. They point to Evergreen Oil in newark and says they have a history of leak...

Last seen in her room in september at San Francisco general. Her family has been posting fliers across San Francisco hoping to find her. But tonight they are facing the possibility that she has been here the entire time. It is frustrating to be 19 days into this. Reporter outside San Francisco General Hospital where his friend Lynn Spaulding was last seen three weeks ago, david perry wants answers for a family desperate for word. Lynns daughter is obviously traumatized. Reporter hospital staff a...