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The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 325. The nays are 100. 2 3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the Senate Amendment is agreed to. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Hudson, to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate Amendment to h. R. 2719 on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 2719, an act to require the Transportation Security Administration to implement best pra...

International and domestic news is all on the table for you this morning as we open up the phone lines. Also, send us a tweet. Or post your comment on facebook. Or send us an email. We will get back to that New York Times story. First, some other headlines on the domestic front. Here is the Washington Times. Also, sticking with the senate, the Baltimore Sun reporting this headline in politics, here is the denver post open phones before the first 30 minutes. We have a short show because the house is coming in at 9 00. Steve in gaithersburg, maryland, a republican caller. Caller host when did th...

Performance award, whatever you want to call that, do you is not sending veterans to the outside to private care, is that part of the metric . And no one has answered that question. Is it yes or no . Congressman, i dont know. And ill take that for the record. Okay. Thank you for that. You mention, at least its in the evaluations that you have, the elements outlined for as leading change, leading people, business acumen, building coalitions and results driven. Those are the metrics that you go by. What are the specifics in there . I mean, how they set up. Thats fine. I mean, all that sounds goo...

Im not aware that its not comparable paid to dod. Ill have to look at that. I would appreciate that. Thanks. And want to know if thats true. Has the va considered offering other incentives such as loan repayment or increase pay for va providers willing to work in rural and underserved areas . We have not looked at that, congressman. Thats interesting. My understanding is the rural areas, rural areas and underserved areas, is typically well, we dont know enough about the investigation to know how this gaming the system sort of matches up, whether we are seeing the manipulation of wait times sor...

Meeting this morning to subpoena two sets of documents from the va that were longstanding requests from the committee, but yesterday va delivered information regarding the removal of six ses employees for the past two fiscal years. This request has been made by multiple members of this committee, including myself, and multiple hearings going back to february. This morning va delivered the second set of documents which i requested via letter in october of 2013. The documents cover the Performance Reviews for each ses individual for fiscal years 2011 and 2012. Although vas response to my request...