[indistinct conversations] good morning. In congress, and your recognize, my friend. Mr. Hill chairman mast, thank you. First, let me start out before i do opening comments and welcome our families and provide introductions for the family members who are here on this very tough, emotional day for them. And a quarter, her husband ryan is a humanitarian aid worker who has been imprisoned in afghanistan since 2022. He is the father of three kids and has been away for 600 days. Deborah, her son is a freelance journalist and was kidnapped in syria in 2012. This august will mark his 12 and hopefully final year away from home. My dear friend marion, her father is a texas psychologist who traveled to syria back in february 2017 to treat refugees and establish a clinic. A day after arriving, he was stopped at a checkpoint outside of damascus and has not been seen since. Giselle, her father jimmy is an iranian journalist and Software Developer who has been detained by the Iranian Regime since 20
Officials from the Veterans Affairs Department Office of information and technology spoke about workforce recruitment and retention, Cyber Security concerns and modernization efforts while testifying on the president 2025 budget request. This is about 1. 5 hours. I would like to call this hearing to order. Once again, testimony was delivered late, only three hours before the hearing. I have mentioned this before. I am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. Ee. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses wi
Can go. We are going to leave this here for live coverage of the house hearing on president bidens request for the 2025 budget. Officials are testifying. Live coverage on cspan for you. As mentioned in this hearing before, i am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses with all the people in all the layers of the va and the white house bureaucracy who wrote the testimony to do better, not just for this committees sake but for the benefit of all the veterans who ultimately will be impacted by this. Good afternoon. Today we will examine the biden administrations budget requests for t
The hospital but in idaho, there is no place else that she can go. We are going to leave this here for live coverage of the house hearing on president bidens request for the 2025 budget. Officials are testifying. Live coverage on cspan for you. As mentioned in this hearing before, i am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses with all the people in all the layers of the va and the white house bureaucracy who wrote the testimony to do better, not just for this committees sake but for the benefit of all the veterans who ultimately will be impacted by this. Good afternoon. Today we w
We all came together to have identification to identify jane doe. Theres a passion to try and find out who our doe is. To try and think what if this was your family. You want to give them closure. Two homicide detectives. Its way above our heads. And i said i think i know how we can do it. All of these people share some amount of dna with the unknown person. We thought, this is the family. This is it surreal. It felt like someone just punched me in the stomach. Its a funny thing, isnt it . That it would be important to have a stone with your name on it. It is written on stone. Youre never forgotten. Hello and welcome to dateline in many cold cases, a grieving family is desperate to find their loved ones killer. But this mystery was not a whodunnit. The killer eventually confessed to the brutal crime. But who did he murder . That question haunted a small texas town for more than 12 years. Until a team of tenatious strangers put a name to a face. Heres Keith Morrison with the woman with