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Jim rubens was born new york city and attended dartmouth college. He has founded a number of Small Businesses and has been an investor or hightech new england startups. He was a twoterm new england senator and let the coalition against expanded gambling. He is married, has one child. Your opening statement, please. Mr. Rubens i am going to show you i am a conservative in this race. Bottom and learned a lot from the school of hard knocks. I am a businessman and i have created jobs here in the sta...

Momentum from saturdays win in south carolina. Hes hoping to hold off ted cruz and marco rubio in tomorrows caucuses. He is expected to speak here at this event that is set to start at seven oclock. Well be working to stream the speech live on ktnv. Com. Reporting live, bryan callahan, 13 action news. Live this was ted cruzs only stop here in the Las Vegas Valley today. And while he was met with support there were also those standing up against him. Vo take a look these for his position on publi...

When this veteran needed relief from severe back pain the cincinnati va told him. We dont have a neurosurgeon here at the hospital anymore. I couldnt believe it. So the va sent hatfield for private care, through Veterans Choice Program intended to solve the national va wait time scandal. To qualify vets must live more than 40 miles away from a va hospital, or have waited longer than 30 days for an appointment. But hatfield says choice didnt live up to its name. Name. I was very, very naive becau...

His proposal for reforming the federal budget process. The Veterans Affairs undersecretary for health testified at a house hearing today about his departments efforts to improve veterans access to health care and reduce wait times. Congressman jeff miller chairs the committee. Thiss just over two hours. Hearing will come to order. Would you like to welcome everyone to todays hearing entitled, a continued assessment of delays in veterans access to health care. This hearing marks two years since t...

Access to care. With that i yield to the Ranking Member, ms. Brown for any opening remark she may have. Thank you, mr. Chairman. For calling this hearing today. Following the wait time scandal of phoenix, Congress Passed and president obama signed the veterans access choice and accountability act of 2014. In it, we mandated there be an independent assessment of veterans healthcare. The assessment highlight many of the things we hear from our veterans. We hear that va provides excellent healthcar...

And voters say they want to be heard. Believe it or not Bernie Sanders has a lot good to say. Even hillary has a lot good to say, ok . Rubio has a lot good to say, cruds has a lot good to say i would wish they settle down on the best of each. If the wrong person gets it the problem is with the american people. As for voter turnout the director here in mecklenberg county say its too early to say how busy. But he is hearing there is a steady flow across the county. He is predicting at least 140,00...

Especially Health Care Related to the special needs of our veterans. We also hear that in certain areas, v. A. Is at the forefront of health care in this country. We also hear from our veterans that v. A. Care is often fragm t fragmented and that it can be difficult to navigate and arrange nonv. A. Care. We hear of long wait times and limited access. Following the assessment in the Service Transportation and Veterans Health care choice improvement act of 2015, we have mandated a report by the d....

Familiar faces are enough to win. I will let you follow up on that. , we have very different characteristics. We have gone through a phase last election where republicans had many more seats that they could challenge. And a date addition to the in addition to the number of seats, republicans did very well last election picking up extremely red states that had democratic senators. There were six states that were rock red republican states and they had open seats. Republicans picked up all of them...

Economies bloom. That is not in lieu of a percent of of a political settlement, but it helps that people in the west bank and people in gaza see that they are not living at the edge of a precipice, that they ave the wherewithal to have real life and businesses. That is easier to do in the west bank. The west bank has been reasonably quiet. Lets work to ensure that that continues. Say, do weround and and to be like aleppo syria, do we want to be like yemen, like libya . Or do we want to have a re...

Recently, maybe you could hold a hearing on its progress. I would welcome that. Giving alcome me in warm welcome to Veterans Affairs secretary robert donald. [applause] Robert Mcdonald thank you so much. War, the ymcal has been a friend of veterans. Forerunner of the g. I. Bill. Today i am pleased to announce the v. A. And the ymca has agreed by furthering our partnership. This makes it easier for v. A. Facilities and ymcas to help in Service Members to connect resources they need. To you and th...