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Talk about the issues that they care about and mobilize them as well. Great question. Right here. Im the executive director of the dakota support foundation which is dedicated to a civilian military. My question is more about culture, as opposed to policy. I ended up being a Military Spouse which was a Culture Shock for everybody involved. But, if you had mentioned kind of the pushback we get from other women. My experience was interesting coming into the military and when i was trying to raise some of the issues seeing the military families. A lot of the pushback i was getting was from the other spouses either on the group and i ended up writing an article for the Washington Post and it was the same thing. 90 were thank you for saying something that the ones i did get that for pushing back were from some of the older < ....
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received with statistics like these it must be a priority to ensure the initiatives the va is pursuing to get the situation under control will actually be effective. so the veterans, their families have received timely, quality decisions when they seek benefits from the va to another area of the budget i would like to briefly mentioned as the legislative proposal to spend $1 billion over five years on veterans jobs or programs. while i believe it s important that we held our veterans to find meaningful work, and interested to learn how the va would suggest paying for this program, and about how it would be structured. so i hope that the va will be able to provide us with more details about the program today. madam chairman, the final item i want to highlight before i turn it back to you is the continued increase in staff that the va central office. and quite honestly at this level. for example, since fiscal year 08 of the staff of the be a central office has grown clos ....
wrong our charge was to look at what was going on now, figural how to move it forward and fix it. there s no doubt that you were correct. there were many things going wrong because the lack of command and technical oversight and policy oversight and coordination. so you get the last question. appreciate that. i guess i don t understand you were saying that you were looking forward but not back. but your appendix, these are all incidents, investigations, allegations of fraud, the settlement to this house of the marine or mental anguish, $25,000, these have not been made public. i don t know that they haven t been made public. and we would like to know more information about them. it s not our we have records we ve received from the force that we published there. are you releasing these in your appendix? the report has been released. for the memos no authority to release anything. you have to go to the air force to ask about those particular questions. ....
i am prepared to state and answer. okay. let me ask you this i ve got to be on thank you for asking. de want us to ask a few questions now and then have you go or i think that we would like to get there so i appreciate that. okay. i m going to yield two center collins and if there s anything left to ask when she is done. thank you, mr. chairman. first secretary ridge, as you know, i have the greatest respect and affection for you personally and the greatest respect for the chamber of commerce, which is why i m disappointed that we don t see this issue exactly in the same way. i would also note a certain irony since the chamber itself was under cyberattack by a group of sophisticated chinese hackers for some six months at least during which time they have access to apparently everything in the chamber system and the chamber was not even aware of the attack until the fbi alerted the chamber in may of 2010, so there is a little bit of irony but i will ....