Chucklebee. [ laughter and applause ] musician and Prospective Senate candidate, kid rock gave a political speech last night in detroit and said, i love black people and i love white people too, but neither as much as i love red, white and blue. [ laughter ] oh, god. Oh, god, hes gonna win. The white house announced today that President Trump will sign a resolution passed by congress that condemns white supremacists. Oh, i can see it now, okay, donald j. Trunch. What . I signed it, i signed it. [ laughter ] former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was named a visiting fellow at Harvard University today, which is pretty much what he was at the white house. [ laughter and applause ] oh, sean hes just visiting. According to new data, american women earned about 80 as much as their male counterparts last year. Said one woman, i dont have male counterparts. [ laughter and applause ] former White House Communications director, Anthony Scaramucci went to twitter last night to tease the
Catch more of sarahs comedy in her new netflix special, chucklebee. [ laughter and applause ] musician and Prospective Senate candidate, kid rock gave a political speech last night in detroit and said, i love black people and i love white people too, but neither as much as i love red, white and blue. [ laughter ] oh, god. Oh, god, hes gonna win. The white house announced today that President Trump will sign a resolution passed by congress that condemns white supremacists. Oh, i can see it now, okay, donald j. Trunch. What . I signed it, i signed it. [ laughter ] former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was named a visiting fellow at Harvard University today, which is pretty much what he was at the white house. [ laughter and applause ] oh, sean hes just visiting. According to new data, american women earned about 80 as much as their male counterparts last year. Said one woman, i dont have male counterparts. [ laughter and applause ] former White House Communications director, Ant
Let me call this meeting of the Senate Veterans committee, this hearing to order. Thank all of you for coming today. Especially our witnesses. We have a number of members who are on the way, but were going to in the interest of time, were going to get started. Todays hearing is about the issue of suicide. As many people in the room know, this month in america is National Suicide Prevention Month across the country. Suicide is a terrible, terrible, terrible loss and wasteful loss of life, and preventable loss of life. I think john will remember when we first came in as a committee three years ago, our first bill that we passed was the clay hunt Suicide Prevention bill. Passed this committee 990, and well ask the secretary and the other members from the v. A. To give us any report they might have on the progress of the implementation in terms of the act, but its a very important act. In august of 2014, i held a hearing at Georgia State university as a member of this committee. It was a f
[applause] good evening. Mr. President , mr. Vice president , thank you for your un wavering support for our nations veterans and families. I want to welcome veterans organizations. V. A. Employees who played a Critical Role in our success. While many challenges remain and we have a lot of work to do in the next 100 days thanks to the president s leadership and bipartisan support in congress, we have made significant progress for veterans in the past three months. Last week, the president signed a reauthorization of the choice act ensuring veterans continue to get care among community providers. Ince january of 2017, v. A. Has authorized 6. 1 Million Community apointments and 1. 8 million more than last year. We are moving quickly to remove bad employees and we will not tolerate those who put our veterans at risk. D wait time has an easy to tool. We have a partnership resulting in a 30 million to build a center in omaha, nebraska. Veterans will have a new facility built with few millio
Good morning, were placed to welcome back a good friend, dr. David shulkin. She last time you appeared before our committee you were in the virginia undersecretary for health and now kicked upstairs after a nance confirmation vote and that says a lot in this political environment. So congratulations. You have a great background in the philadelphia area, just learned you were in marstown and you certainly bring lat of experience to the job and although im sure these days that the challenges are very dawning for you daunting for you. This hearing is unusual. Rather than the typical Budget Hearing we have at this time of year, were limited to a discussion of the skinny budget, the skinny budget materials the onb sent to the hill in march. They twopage entry for the va doesnt give us much to go on in terms of Program Priorities but the skinny budget gives us the administration is proposing a 4. 4 billion 6 funding increase for the agency and addition theres 2. 9 billion proposed in new man