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Nomination of James Trainer to the commissioner on the federal election commission. When the Senate Returns live coverage youre on cspan2. The editor of the military times joins us to talk about Veterans Health and the coronavirus pandemic. We saw the numbers this past weekend 02 1000 veterans that have died from this disease. There is this happening . What is this trend about . This is right up all over the country and this morning its around 1060. About a quarter of those deaths are in new yor...

Coach to rally the troops, you know, now might be the time. Theres still a lot to play for and thats whats exciting about the rest of this season. Were still playing for that opportunity to hopefully be in that game and nick has played a ton of football and you never want it to be under these circumstances but at the same time, you know, my confidence is extremely high in nick. Reporter yeah, its that time of year so bring on saint nick. Lets not forget hes done this before. The last time the ea...

There would be no reason to stint those lesions. Thank you. Doctor mitchell, since you blew the whistle at the va scandal, has anything changed in phoenix in your view . Now patients are being scheduled or being referred to choice. The problem is that there is a delay in the community of getting choice apartmentst appointments scheduled. Retaliation is alive and well and i have many friends within the phoenix va scared to speak up, and they call me and i reported them and i try to assist them so...

Helpful if you did not use that term much because it is an illusion. Ill have my question. The snap back is more focused on the United States than it is iran. As you know, mr. Secretary those of us who are involved in the bush administration, getting countries to economically isolate iran, we used a lot of leverage with countries saying you are either going to be in their market or hours. And that was effective. But he goes to this idea, if there is some kind of snap back, that was a slog. That ...

Caregivers and advocates, especially my former colleague, senator Elizabeth Dole, who is an extraordinary advocate for our military caregivers. Our military families, heroes in plain clothing, are serving in americas cities and communities every single day. The effects of military Service Often do not end with a tour of duty. For many veterans and their families, the journey sometimes extends for a lifetime. For some with bows both visible and invisible scars, the transition home is not easy. Re...

Order. Thank you for coming today especially the witnesses we have a number of witnesses available todays hearing is about the issue of suicide. As many people know this month in Americas National Suicide Prevention month across the country terrible wasteful loss of life they think john will remember when we first came in three years ago the first bill we passed was a Suicide Prevention bill that passed and if they could get any report they might have on the progress on the implementation in ter...

In 2009 with the 82nd airborne. This was not an easy assignment. This was really dangerous work. In fact, 37 of the men that the sergeant served with didnt return home. It was in 2010 that he was severely injured in an ied blast. He lost an arm, a leg and 40 of his body had burns over it. He wasnt expected to survive the medical flight but he did, fortunately. Thanks to really what may be described as a miracle and certainly the support of his amazing wife sarah, 110 surgeries and years of thera...

Actually for while now. Right . Its not sticking everywhere as of yet. Weve been tracking the system for a few days. Check out this guy in shorts. Yeah, walking right down south street. Skiers though have got to be amped take look at our pocono mountains cam r Blue Mountain there could be fresh powder by tomorrow. You dont need to head to the poconos to see most of the snow out of this whole thing. Good evening and thanks for joining us im iain page. Im lucy noland. If youre helping for major bl...

It would be great for our jobs, great for some fun things to do in town. Reporter the third city in the running is oshkosh. Their efforts are similar to here in sheboygan. To bring a bucks stadium that could cost up to 14 million. That would be privately funded. City leaders here in sheboygan tell me a decision could be coming as soon as the end of this month. Right now were live in courtny thanks. Steve the death of a Milwaukee County jail inmate has been rule a homicide. The medical examiner d...

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...