On capitol hill with lawmakers fielding questions about healthcare and well spend some time talking with veterans only and get your experience with the v. A. System. If you live in the Eastern Central part dial it at 2027488000, 2027488001 or send us a tweet or go to facebook. Com or send an email. Veterans only and the lines are open. Take a look at the numbers. This is from the Veterans Affairs department. These are the number of veterans that get benefits and healthcare through the v. A. System. About 9 million are enrolled in the v. A. Healthcare system and nearly 7 million have a Life Insurance policy administered by the v. A. And four4 million are active and 1 million get education benefits and. 3 million receiving a v. A. Pension and about. 1 v. A. Vocational rehabilitation beneficiaries. That is the different benefits and healthcare that the v. A. Offers. Heres the veteran population about 22 million veterans 9 of those are female. The rest males. Look how it breaks down by war
That we made. Among the most contentious issues over the past two years involved the armys restructuring initiative. I understand the army has been put in a difficult position by budget reductions and over the past several years has been exploring a number of option to maximize come pat power while at the same time trying to combat costs. Congress has similarly been taking a hard look at this which is why the commission of the structure of the army was established in the ndaa. If confirmed will you comment to thoroughly reviewing the armys Aviation Restructuring Initiative and working closely with congress once the Commission Report is delivered next year to help us figure out the best path forward on Army Structure issues . Absolutely will and i look forward to reviewing the Commission Report. And what do you think are the biggest threats that should you be confirmed youll have to prepare the army to address in the coming decade . I think the armys fundamental mission of engaging in g
The agenda for the most obvious reasons. It is the most populous country in the entire region. For the last four years it has teetered on the brink of political and economic and social collapse. I think it is still in a tenuous phase at this point. And when we talk about adopting or adapting the new silk road concepts to places like egypt there are places where it fits in with the president s attempt to build a second suez canal and to help egypt become a more functional place when it comes to linking parts of the world together. Where i think we may have some differences of views, and we can talk about this is how about the best way for egypt to approach the extremism and terrorism problem. And as we see in the last few weeks, this problem is not only gotten worse, it has actually made things much more difficult in places not only in the signi peninsula but in cairo proper. But this is again not only what type of in collusive Economic Growth we want to try to promote to help the socie
He was the first africanamerican student body president and his law degree from new york university. After law school he spent a month in new orleans playing trumpet and becoming friends with wynton marsalis. Then he worked in a law firm and later served in the u. S. Department of justice and on the staff of the house judiciary committee. He returned to charlotte in 2001 to work in a law firm there and got elected to the Charlotte City council in 2005, and he was reelected in 2007. He was elected the citys mayor in 2009, the youngest person ever to hold that job, and he was confirmed as the 17th transportation secretary in june of 2013 by a vote of 1000 a rare moment of bipartisanship. So much for biography now on to the everpopular process portion of our program. As always, were on the record here. Ive been told our guest may commit news this morning and so youre listening to the following ground rules your listening to the following ground rules is important. As is always the case at
Special favorite of the law comment in the validation of the public accommodations provision reaches less far than has been conventionally imagined. Bradley is preserving the availability of the statement concept. He is preserving it in a context where the republican administrations are making headway and are using Voting Rights theory that he has already provided. He is saying, in this context where you are already using 16th amendment exemption in federal amendment law, im keeping the state neglect law available. He is the one that first made it available in 1874. It was the klan lawyers that attacked his theory before the court in 1876. This was his first chance since then to be articulated and re articulate it he does. Its vital to see that. Newspapers see this. Newspaper coverage sees this concept of the state neglect in civil rights cases. Again, i give you an excerpt from the chicago tribune. Lots of coverage of the Supreme Court cases in the reconstruction era. The tribune the