Mr. Thompson if that freshwater doesnt run through and to the ocean the saltwater runs back in. I have two major cities in my district that relies on that for the source of water. If this bill passes, their water supply is in jeopardy. You cant drink salts water. It just doesnt work. California is in the middle of an extreme drought. Its not due to a lack of pumping. Its not because our states water regulations and its not because were putting fish ahead of farms and people. Its because theres no rain and theres no snow. No bill can make it rain but this bill makes a bad situation even worse. Its wrong for california. It wont stop the drought. It wont make it rain but it will kill jobs and it will ruin Drinking Water for millions of californians. The state of california wont support this bill because it ignores 20 years of established science and undermines our extensive efforts to implement equal measures to address longstanding water shortages. Weve been down this road before in cali
And ptsd. Similar to what we heard mr. Murphy mention about radiation in mobile, alabama. We havent done exam the issue of the specialized, but certainly additional training would be a help in term adjudicating the claims. So the bettertrained but the better specialized the workers the work and the work you have done, the more accurate they can timeliness they can process those particular claims . We would expect that, yes. Great, thank you. Mr. Murphy, to follow up on my previous questions about camp will june and mobil, alabama where you specialize in the particular areas. One of the problems i have seen over time being on this committee is particularly in some Regional Offices where the error rate is over 50 . When you look at the turnover rate in those area they might not be an employer of choice. And constantly training individuals in particularly without veterans coming back from iraq and afghanistan with tbi and ptsd and mst, issues i think its important that the the new system
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Congress has never denied the va a single penny for doing its job. The current budget, over 54 billion is being paid out to veterans and direct benefits. The balance of their budget that they receive right now is for administration of their business. But they are not doing business properly. I could see here for hours and gave the statement after statement after statement of egregious behavior. Wrongful denials and in some cases the liver of malfeasance. All we ask is you continue to press this forward. You consider our mission, to have a full Veterans Administration complete the rear commencing the way we do business in demanding full 100 accountability of repercussions for their actions. Thank you again, mr. Chairman, ranking number 79, esteemed panel. We are grateful for the opportunity to be here to testify in the pr to take any questions from you. Thank you, ms. Price. Now we will hear from ms. Mcnutt. Please begin your statement when youre ready. [inaudible] complex va claims. My
I asked them why action had not been taken. They told me that they were looking for lots of owl and utter control. I said that isnt relevant. You dont mean it. He already qualified. The lady was able to hear me out. I took her through the regulations and statutes, which would take me a long time to go through. The veteran ended up getting the r2. Its on our website. We had a mix of the va that the band in animal house. It didnt have lots of use. The momentum of the auction. They were going to accept those words. Kind of silly. Secondly, the people doing the work didnt know below. The va needs to do more to train people to understand smc. The legion, ammo ph does a lot of work on that issue. If you looked in our text book, we have a formula that Service Office there is an va can use to properly evaluate. Its complicated and you have to look at it each time. Thank you. Mr. Gillums. In order of the affected adjudicated claim come you have to have the tuition for things that are pretty abs