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[inaudible conversations] committee will come to order. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being with the committee for todays oversight hearing entitled combating the crisis evaluating efforts to prevent veteran suicide. As the hearing title suggests, we are here this morning to discuss the ongoing veteran suicide crisis that, according to the latest Data Available from the department of Veterans Affairs, finds 22 veterans a day dying at their own hands. Im disappointed that the v. A. Was n...

And you have to go no further than this sundays New York Times, the sunday review, front page cover. It looks like a red cross tilted on its side with the headline sorry, we dont take obamacare. Sorry, we dont take obamacare. I see the minority leader come to the floor, harry reid, and talking about how wonderful it is. The president says forcefully defend and be proud. Of what . Of something that, sorry, we dont take obamacare. Now, this is the New York Times, a newspaper whose Editorial Board ...

I just buried our youngest in back and youre not going to have anything left. You need to come home. Will examine the vietnam war of the 1960s have experiences of Charlie Company discussing the battlefield of vietnam and we soldiers have to fight upon return to the United States. Veterans have been just as political footballs. They been used as part of a morality play. They been just as many things but hardly anybody had gotten to tell their story who they were as young men before they went, the...

Prison when you get out you can get out and transition soon in the healthiest way possible. So my challenge is always to be honest with the American Public and the likelihood of that happening is probably nonexistent but again thats what makes the book so important because you get an inside look whats happening in the system and what works. The idea is a bunch of nonsense to me. Host you are an inspiration. Oprah said after she talked to you after reading the book it was one of the most powerful...

Decades ago, and thats the prohibition of discrimination in housing based on race, sex, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability and family status. Its the Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act was in many ways the culmination of the legislative fight for civil rights in the 1960s. It was the first effective federal law guarding against discrimination in the sale and the rental of housing in the United States and for nearly 50 years, it has been employed to assure that every ame...

[inaudible conversations] committee will come to order. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being with the committee for todays oversight hearing entitled combating the crisis evaluating efforts to prevent veteran suicide. As the hearing title suggests, we are here this morning to discuss the ongoing veteran suicide crisis that, according to the latest Data Available from the department of Veterans Affairs, finds 22 veterans a day dying at their own hands. Im disappointed that the v. A. Was n...

To lawmakers about Mental Health care and Suicide Prevention programs for veterans and their families. The witnesses testify on why some are not receiving the necessary treatment and how a new law passed last year is trying to address the issue. This hearing is two and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] committee come to order. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being with the committee for todays oversight hearing entitled combating the crisis evaluating efforts to prevent veteran suic...

I call this thes hearing of the Senate Committee on agriculture attrition and forestry to order. Thank you all for coming. Todays hearing will examine the overall climate of credit in Rural America, the health of ag lending from the commercial bank in the farm Credit System perspectives and what the impact of current credit environment having our nations farms. We will also examine whether the Farm Credit Administration is exercising appropriate oversight in the farm Credit System. Farmers and r...

[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] and that concludes our live coverage from lit fest in chicago for day one. Well be back again live on sundays. Now, if you missed any of the events we covered today, theyll only air beginning at midnight eastern. [inaudible] book tv tapes hundreds of authors throughout country all year long. Heres a look at some of the empts well be covering this week on monday at Barnes Noble Book sell rs in maryland former Washington Post reporter dale quinton will be discus...

The last theres been a lot of talk about over last generation, the last 40 years really highlights the challenges of measuring economic values. A lot of people take the view that there hasnt been much progress, much growth in incomes, economic stagnation over that period of time. And i often try to put the lie to that assertion by asking people to whether theyre low income, middle income, high income, raise your hand if you wanting to back to 1975 and there usually arent a lot of takers. But one...