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Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Veteran suicide continue to be a national epidemic. Veterans are estimated to have a suicide rate thats 50 higher than those who did not serve in the military. Major driver of sued rates is the incidence of post Traumatic Stress among our veterans. According to the department of veterans affairs, between 11 and 20 of those who served in operatiOperation Iraqi freedomr enduring freedom suffer from pts. Veterans with pts m...

His proposal for reforming the federal budget process. The Veterans Affairs undersecretary for health testified at a house hearing today about his departments efforts to improve veterans access to health care and reduce wait times. Congressman jeff miller chairs the committee. Thiss just over two hours. Hearing will come to order. Would you like to welcome everyone to todays hearing entitled, a continued assessment of delays in veterans access to health care. This hearing marks two years since t...

Access to care. With that i yield to the Ranking Member, ms. Brown for any opening remark she may have. Thank you, mr. Chairman. For calling this hearing today. Following the wait time scandal of phoenix, Congress Passed and president obama signed the veterans access choice and accountability act of 2014. In it, we mandated there be an independent assessment of veterans healthcare. The assessment highlight many of the things we hear from our veterans. We hear that va provides excellent healthcar...

President ial race continues tuesday night for the new york state primary. Join us at 9 00 for viewer reaction and speeches, taking you on the road to the white house on cspan, cspan radio, in cspan. Org. Monday on of the communicators, george ford, chief economist of the Phoenix Center for Public Policy studies and mark cooper, Research Director for the Consumer Federation of america, debate the secs proposal allowing consumers to buy their own settop boxes instead of renting them from cable pr...

And voters say they want to be heard. Believe it or not Bernie Sanders has a lot good to say. Even hillary has a lot good to say, ok . Rubio has a lot good to say, cruds has a lot good to say i would wish they settle down on the best of each. If the wrong person gets it the problem is with the american people. As for voter turnout the director here in mecklenberg county say its too early to say how busy. But he is hearing there is a steady flow across the county. He is predicting at least 140,00...

Jose. Good morning. Great to see you on this thursday. By the way, congratulations for a locking down British Airways flying nonstop to london and back. I am sure it will be a very big hit here in the bay area. Welcome to the 9, everyone. Sal castaneda, gasia mikaelian, im mike mibach. A busy day between major changes in the weather and that mess on vta in san jose. Its like thunderstorming or something right now in the east bay. Lets go right to steve. A couple of heavy cells there, steve . Tha...

To talk about two examples, case studies, if you would come of the approaches that we took when i was in the senate to actually get things done and move things forward. Ive had fellow senators during my tenure who had come to the end of 5 years and say they werent even able to get an amendment that theyve introduced to a vote on the senate floor. I will take two cases here to show you the way that we were able to do this. The first is on the post 9 11 g. I. Bill which i believe is the greatest E...

Particularly at sections 101 and 102, which deal with residency slots, the use of provisions of regulations that we feel strongly that these would be a positive aspect to allow us to develop more residencesy programs in va to have the potential to recruit residents from those programs to provide care for veterans. I think also looking at section 300, which deals with additional provisions that put Network Directors and Medical Center directors under title 38 and allow us to be more competitive a...

We have a lot more time and more maturity in the airplane we have upgraded that list. The 80 number you heard at eglin, which was accurate, for the entire fleet today is about half that now. Thats not the best part of the story. Thats the whole fleet. The best part is the lot 6 and 7 airplanes were fielding today were improving today because of the things in the last two years, they are only seeing a handful of 1s and 2s everyday. And that 40 includes the 80 includes all the older airplanes that...

To 50 to 55 mph possible. As high pressur build sin behind this systems colder air works its way down from canada dropping highs on friday into the upper 30s and lower 40s. Tonight showers stor ms ending, windy low 3743 winds sw 1530 and gustythursday p cloudy, very windy high 50 low 40 friday m cloudy, stll windy high 43 low 33 saturday mostly sunny high 56 low 26 sunday mostly sunny high 58 low 36 monday chance of showers high 53 low 3 tuesday chance of showers high 49 low 42 tonight, the Nati...