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Speaking with our cspan viewers this evening. Thank you for having me. Thank you for your calls and comments on how the government should regulate ecigarettes. We appreciate the input and the calls. Zp coming up on cspan president obama announces plans to move immigration resources to handle the influx of unaccompanied minors at the border. And then the Supreme Court oral rgument in the case of burwell v. Lobby, and later president obama introduces his nominee to be the next Veterans Affairs secretary. On the next washington journal a look at the Supreme Courts ruling on the contraception mand...

But with respect to title vii, of course, its still the case that that employers with 15 or fewer people are not subject to that law, and thats 80 of the employers in the country. And if you run the math, thats its at least 80 thats its going to be somewhere between 10 million and 22 Million People who are not within the coverage. No one would say that because the coverage is incomplete in that respect, that title vii enforcing title vii doesnt advance those were decisions those were decisions that congress made, right . Yes. Well, the grandfathering is not a decision that congress made, is it...

Should be applied uniformly across all employers. Heres, respectfully, why i dont think that that works, which is i think the question whenever there are exemptions in the statute is to ask yourself, do the exemptions undermine the compelling interest that the government asserts. Theres nothing inconsistent with an interest in prohibiting employment discrimination to say were going to focus on the people who actually employ the most people and therefore can engage in the most discrimination. Its quite a different matter, and i dont think anybody would think that congress would pass a title vii...

Well, the grandfathering is not a decision that congress made, is it . Well, the way in which its implemented is a decision that the agency has made, thats true. But even with respect to the Preventive Services, i dont think anyone would say that theres not a compelling interest in advancing Colorectal Cancer screening and immunizations and the things that the Preventive Services provisions provide in addition to contraceptive coverage. I just think this a compelling interest under any understanding of the term. I just want before you get to this point, and my question reflects no point of vie...

Cuttingedge stuff. Stuff that no one has done before. That i the kind of thing would think Health Care Professionals would want to be a part of. We should tell that ability and use it to recruit the best people who want to make a difference in others lives. Forhen we met, i have asked sites pacific information related to the audit that was done here. Shinseki forls sitespecific information. I am referring to the audit that was done in the spring. I would like a commitment that i will receive a response to that letter. We will respond to the letter. I would like your commitment asking for an ap...