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u.s. history, putting forth more than 300 billion dollars for climate clean energy investment, including a methane reduction program, which rewards farmers and ranchers for reducing methane emissions. environmental justice block grants, a climate bank provision to make investments in clean energy technology, and energy efficiency. an extension of the electric vehicle tax credit. guaranteed wage rates for clean energy jobs, in four billion dollars for drought funding, one of several ite...

How insane is it that in one federal government you have the va paying 50% of what medicare is paying for prescription drugs. all of my amendments stated, you know what, medicare should not pay anymore than va. with a open doing for 30 years. when you take on the pharmaceutical industry, you take on the most powerful lobby here in washington d.c.. they have alimta the mount of money to make sure we pay originally high prices. 1700 paying lobbyists. bottom line is, this legislation is a baby step...

White house. it seems very much a lot of top aides to the president still had not gotten the clearance that they needed to see top secret information here at the white house, erica. >> abby phillip with the latest, thank you. at this hour va secretary david shill kin is facing tough questions about his taxpayer funded travel. this comes after a blistering report from the inspector general who said his chief of staff altered an e-mail that led to the va paying more than $4,000 for his wife to f...

Function tests lets say, you should get started on the protocol regardless looking for the cause. that may be covered by the va. >> you said the cancer itself the river fluke is known to cause is difficult to treat. if you catch it before it gets to cancer easier to treat? anything you can do about it? >> its easier to treat. you could try medications and different things. even if you catch the cancer early you can still treat it. there is curative surgery. most people only have symptoms once it...

Parasite should get tested. the way you get exposed is swallowing the water in vietnam if its not boiled. by eating raw or undercooked fish. if you were in that situation, better to go get tested. >> you think about there were hundreds of thousands of men who went to vietnam, many saw combat. a lot of whom ate fish that was undercooked. rations ran out or what they bought. you could talk about an enormous number of people. >> a huge number and why the va is being cashous. from the patient side t...

Testing. associate professor at nyu school of medicine joins us now. is this the tip of the iceberg? these isolated cases? what are we dealing with here? >> i think its the tip of the iceberg. 700 veterans have been diagnosed with this type of cancer in the past 15 years. 700 diagnosed that we know of. most of them didnt submit any claims. so for any service-related connection. they didnt think it was related to their time in vietnam. but the ones who did most of them got their claims rejected. ...

On the argentinean submarine missing since november 15th. video of the search right there and this crossing the a.p. wire in the past couple of minutes. the argentinean navy saying a sound detected during the search is consistent with a non-nuclear explosion. the relatives of the 44 crew members have been informed of this. this explosion happened not long after the sub went missing on november 15th. as ben hall reported time is running out. if this sub is at the bottom of the ocean. the amount o...

Already three people died. the irs says it will conduct a full environmental test of the facility. the va paying millions of dollars a shocking audit showing 13,000 jobs of the scandal plagued agency were miss classified. uncorrected for at least 14 years. from 2013 to 14 over payments amounted to $24 million. critics say that money could have been used to ease the agency shortage of doctors and injurieses. >> the 9-11 museum scrapping plans to serve alcohol and gourmet food at the sacred site. ...

Shulkin is out. the president is hoping his personal physician will be confirmed by the senate. for what is a massive job. there has been tension about whether or not there should be more privatization of the services provided for the va. that has long been sort of a tension point. because va hospitals, although they are plentiful, are not everywhere. some services they provide are certainly battlefield related. others, medical care that is more typical in nature, might be provided by a local do...

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