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What was once a wellintentioned Program Designed to help Small Businesses has become a play pen for Corporate Giants. The fccs recent aws3 spectrum auction is a shocking case in point. Earlier this year the fcc disclosed that two companies, each of which claimed it was a, quote, very Small Business with less than 15 million in revenues together won over 13 billion in spectrum licenses. Those very Small Businesses are now claiming over 3 billion in taxpayer funded discounts. How could this be . D...

Word. Thank you, gang. Melissa im Melissa Francis and heres whats money tonight. Just when you think were in the clear, congress reels us right back in. Yes, there is finally fiscal cliff deal. Now a brand newhowdown looms over the debt ceiling. When will the madness end . Well ask republican senator john barrasso. Plus a sperm donor being forced to pay child support. Despite his signing away all pareal rights before the baby was born. Well look at money impact on the baby business everywhere. A...

Word. Thank you, gang. Melissa im Melissa Francis and heres whats money tonight. Just when you think were in the clear, congress reels us right back in. Yes, there is finally fiscal cliff deal. Now a brand new showdown looms over the debt ceiling. When will the madness end . Well ask republican senator john barrasso. Plus a sperm donor being forced to pay child support. Despite his signing away all parental rights before the baby was born. Well look at money impact on the baby business everywher...

Secretary gibson will travel ton a series of facilities over the weeks to meet with veterans, their families and employees toh identify obstacles to Quality Health care. Ee and secretary gibson has said we must restore americas trust in Va Health Care system. We must restore that one veteran at a time. Our dedicated workforce over a a third of whom are veterans are engaged. Mr. Chairman, thank you to your dedication to and your care fore our nations fete rans. Mr. Griffin, you are recognized for...

To increase local contracts to include for primary care and we are removing leadership where w appropriate. We are going to we have suspended all s. E. S. Performancs awards for vha for fy14. Ng we are focusing our hr hiringay efforts on bringing clinical engineering and administrative staff to the field. Secretary gibson will travel ton a series of facilities over the weeks to meet with veterans, their families and employees toh identify obstacles to Quality Health care. Ee and secretary gibson...

People. Iraqi the average sunni has no desire to live their life under isi rules. The good news is the average iraqi wants to move forward. Iraqi air force is basically granted, without american air power, it will be hard to turn the tide. You heard the reports the iranians say they want help. Should we encourage them to help , all of all things . We will probably need their help to hold that back. Their goal is to create a sectarian iraq. To have a puppet in baghdad, a shia dominated government...

Crude oil will watch, as well, down 6 of the past 7 weeks. As we mentioned, our road map begins withal ibm. A deal to offload the chip business. Markets feeling the impact of that ibm news. The dow has been dragged lower but the s p holding on. Is this a setup for another volatile week . And as it fprepares to launch after the bell, apple launches a catch. Premarket, the dow component reporting 3. 68 a share. Well below forecast of 4. 31. Sales fell across several divisions. Ibms chairman and ce...

I think there areas you have enough like cardio but neuro is difficult to fill anywhere. Did you notice a difference in the types of consult . We looked at gastro, physical therapy and also cardio and we heard there demand didnt keep pace with the number of providers they had. The demand kept increasing and they didnt have the providers to fill the slots. So it didnt matter. I thought it did. We didnt look at all specialties but those were the three we did. And one question i had. How much is yo...

Well to insure the veterans needs are met, that that nonva provider is respectfully working with a veteran, her or his family, to get into care. Thank you. The gao also reports that there is a consistent problem across vha with policy and procedures for handling noshows and cancelled appointments. Im aware that va, that you are working on an update to this scheduling policy. When do you anticipate this revision, revised po ills to be released and well address the noshow consistently throughout t...

Us do our oversight hearing as well. I yield back the balance of my time. Thank you very much for your comments this evening. I would ask that all members would waive their Opening Statements is customary in the committee. I would invite the witnesses to please come to the witness table and as you are coming forward, i will introduce you. We will hear from dr. Debra draper, Record Health care for the Government Accountability office. Koski, richard griffin, acting Inspector General of the depart...