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Call this meeting to order. Welcome, everybody. Hope yall had a great thanksgiving and hope everybody has a wonderful Holiday Season coming up. This is a very important hearing for the United States senate. On november 4th, if my memory is correct, we had a meeting at the va. Sloane gibson, dr. Schulkin and some others were in the room. In terms of Va Health Service delivery to our veterans, veterans choice, consolidating programs, reimbursement rates so there wasnt any preference over another. A reality in our lifetime and in their lifetime. With that will come a number of decisions. This will not be the first time i heard most of this information. We had that meeting before. It will be the first time a lot of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. This is a cr ....
What youve probably thought about in terms of the enabling legislation for this particular program. If you dont do that, then youre building the transformed system on outdated policies that may or hey not have ever been appropriate. They just happened to get through congress and you have to live up to them because theyve been mandated to you. Im not going to get into a lot of questions except that the reason i continue to have this flavor to my discussion is i want to help you establish a plan that transcends your tenure and your positions. So do we. That continues when we get another president. That needs to be articulated. And we need people in the va to put the mirror back on us, saying youre asking me to do this thats shifting away from the other thing you asked me to do. If we do at that, and you put the mirror in, its our problem. If we make a request, and you dont reflect back on us, its your problem. And i want to make this our problem so that we can help facilitate the transfo ....
Being successful and being integrated and being a worldclass city. So, when i say that were not sitting on our success, i also saved we are building upon our success. You know, we raised the minimum wage. Thats a excitingly good thing for people really feel that they cant afford to be here. We are investing in transportation. We are implementing a very serious tax reform. How could you have a tax system that was literally taxing jobs when youre saying i want those jobs in our city for everybody . We are investing in our citys youth and families and education system. In unprecedented level. I was with the School District the other night as they swore in the School Board Members that were just elected and i spent the entire evening with the School District. I wanted to demonstrate how important education is to the ....