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Obama good morning, everybody. Several years ago, the state department began a review process for the proposed instruction the pipeline that would carry Canadian Crude Oil from the heartland through the the gulf of mexico to the market. This morning, senator kerry informed me that after extensive Public Outreach and consultation with other cabinet agencies, the state department has decided that the keystone xl pipeline would not serve the National Interest of the United States. I agree with that...

Front line defenders on the war on sexual assault, ill say. They report to me overwhelmingly that they think were making progress on all fronts but one. And here comes the hardest of all, i think. Were definitely not satisfied. And that is the issue of retaliation. So, retaliation, by the way, can be if you report sexual assault, the boss takes some action against you, which is or feels like retaliation. Ill call that official retaliati retaliation. The other form is just when your peers in the ...

Sexual assault response coordinator. I immediate privately with the front line defenders on the war on sexual assault, ill say. They report to me overwhelmingly that they think were making progress on all fronts but one. And here comes the hardest of all, i think. Were definitely not satisfied. And that is the issue of retaliation. So, retaliation, by the way, can be if you report sexual assault, the boss takes some action against you, which is or feels like retaliation. Ill call that official r...

Infrastructure to deliver that care. Within the v. A. Within the v. A. But where we cant justify that business decision we need to be outsourcing. And just one more thing that follows up with that. In another year you guys are probably going to be gone with the new administration. I hope not, i hope yall stay but youre probably going to be gone. Are you laying into process so that whoever takes your place assuming that youre not brought back that the transition would be seamless and the justific...

Call this meeting to order. Welcome, everybody. Hope yall had a great thanksgiving and hope everybody has a wonderful Holiday Season coming up. This is a very important hearing for the United States senate. On november 4th, if my memory is correct, we had a meeting at the va. Sloane gibson, dr. Schulkin and some others were in the room. In terms of Va Health Service delivery to our veterans, veterans choice, consolidating programs, reimbursement rates so there wasnt any preference over another. ...

What youve probably thought about in terms of the enabling legislation for this particular program. If you dont do that, then youre building the transformed system on outdated policies that may or hey not have ever been appropriate. They just happened to get through congress and you have to live up to them because theyve been mandated to you. Im not going to get into a lot of questions except that the reason i continue to have this flavor to my discussion is i want to help you establish a plan t...

20,000 vets were either ignored or workers who were hiding the delays. The problem isnt getting any better. The number of appointments that take longer than 90 days to complete has doubled and now goals calling for patients to be seen within 30 days is not being met. At last check 6,000 veterans at the va hospital in philadelphia wait 30 days or more to see a doctor. With me now is new jersey congressman donald norcross, the sponsor of a bill called the veterans freedom of health care act. It wi...

This is video from eagle 8 hd. The Highway Patrol tells us the bus driver, 63yearold Marilyn Kay Ray turned left into the path of the suv. We also have exclusive cell phone video from right after the crash. And if you look closely you can see children crying. Other students screaming from the bus. Two of those children had to be taken to the hospital. We spoke with one student about what happened. The bus was turning very fast, i was playing on my phone. When they crashed, my head hit my phone a...

The hearing will come to order. We are here to discuss the president s fiscal year 2016 budget request for the department of Veterans Affairs. Mr. Secretary, welcome to the committee. Understand that your testimony will be a little bit different today than what we are accustomed to with reference to chart to help us better understand what you are seeing in terms of the challenges that lay ahead and i would say that is indeed a welcome change. So too is the open as you have had with me with membe...

Values, the kurds themselves, are the largest minority population in the world. Without a country themselves. Therefore, the same question would be posed for them. Not sure it would be long. The message the Committee Received from the government is that they desperately need equipment, what is the government response for that . Can i throw it back at you and ask what specifically they requested . Machine guns, we saw that. They wanted armored vehicles, things like that to assist them. Request to...