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Good evening, everybody. Thank you for being here tonight to discuss for the 2nd time the va Inspector Generals final report entitled an appropriate use of position and misuse of Relocation Program and incentives. We are holding a 2nd hearing tonight because the witnesses we had requested to appear before this committee at the hearing on 21 october chose not to attend or blocked by the department of Veterans Affairs from attending. Their failure to appear let us to unanimously vote on an issue subpoenas to compel their testimony, something we have never done before. The five individuals we iss...

Testimony, something we have never done before. The five individuals that we issued subpoenas to where danny pomo personal deputy undersecretary for benefits, diana rubin is director of the philadelphia Regional Office, ms. Kimberly grace director of the st. Paul Regional Office, mr. Robert mckendrick director of the Los Angeles Regional Office, mr. Antoine waller director of the baltimore Regional Office. We learned at our last hearing the ig report lays out the alleged abuse of vas relocation permanent change of station programs costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money and ...

Over that 50 billion threshold and would save us some supervisory resources, this isnt a musthave. On living wills, the very largest banks in the country are even larger today than they were during the financial crisis, the living wills provision of dodd frank was to make sure the banks never threaten the economy again by giving regulators addition additional and only the fdic took the official position that the wills were not credible. The feds decision not to join the fdic has slowed both regulators ability to take additional action. Why would the fed voluntary give up additional authorities...

[ applause ] thank you very much for that, pat. That was very inspiring to think about health as being much bigger than health kcare and trying to find the solutions to get us there. Now we are going to turn to avic roy who has just returned from his money moon. Hes the opinion editor at forbes. He has an interesting back glund includes both medicine and finance. Hes a leading conservative change agent and a sought after president ial campaign advisor. Hes currently advising senator marco rubio and has previously advised rick perry and mitt romney. Hes the principal author of the apothecary, t...

Cuomo and asked him if the state needs to step in. He expressed confidence the city has homeless crisis under control. The good news is we know how to solve them but we have to have the capacity and confidence to solve it. Reporter the problem is hitting many places underground, especially railroads and subways, even after Police Commissioner bill bratton said this last week. Subways are not homeless shelters and the homeless will not be allowed to congregate in them. Reporter the city says it has Homeless Outreach programs in all 468 subway stations with teams dispatched 24 7. But commuters t...