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Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Veteran suicide continue to be a national epidemic. Veterans are estimated to have a suicide rate thats 50 higher than those who did not serve in the military. Major driver of sued rates is the incidence of post Traumatic Stress among our veterans. According to the department of veterans affairs, between 11 and 20 of those who served in operatiOperation Iraqi freedomr enduring freedom suffer from pts. Veterans with pts may be troubled by intrusive thoughts, avoid people, places and things, and experience hyperawareness...

Kept giving false information when you are in a situation to answer to your superiors. Says they have been on this committee we have requested and subpoena people to come before us who should automatically come. But yet you agree you feel that you should have you had the answer to your superiors the you were revised not to come. Do you see why the American People feel like they are being lied to . Another member said that you are gaming the system. Is probably perception of that is the case with the v. A. I have a v. A. On the edge of my district i believe the majority of the people provide th...

Already at the bottom. Have we done things to make it more difficult . Weve got look, if people want to vote i believe aside from the online and all that stuff, lets go back, i dont know a lot of folks that have more than two weeks to vote a different mobile voting sites,sites, different locations whether it is the school, church, whatever. We are given two weeks. Can you give more . Absolutely. That increase Voter Participation . I dont know. I think when that was implemented we will get a bigger Voter Participation. Today 50 percent of all those that are cast i done during the early vote. I ...

Good evening, everybody. Thank you for being here tonight to discuss for the 2nd time the va Inspector Generals final report entitled an appropriate use of position and misuse of Relocation Program and incentives. We are holding a 2nd hearing tonight because the witnesses we had requested to appear before this committee at the hearing on 21 october chose not to attend or blocked by the department of Veterans Affairs from attending. Their failure to appear let us to unanimously vote on an issue subpoenas to compel their testimony, something we have never done before. The five individuals we iss...

That seems to be something we could fix. These are fulltime positions. They were off moving to a fulltime position. These are fulltime, very demanding tough positions, but they are not at a level that they were asked before. Okay. Thank you. And is it typical for all to be directly even when they volunteer for position, and im sorry you may have covered this country is about im curious about the direct assignment compared to volunteering. Though, scs can be volunteer or directed. I dont believe that weve ever directed somebody inside out eba. I think thats something we need to change. I think ...