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Its exactly the reason i gave up my cell phone number during the First National press conference in september and i get calls every single day from veterans and to listen to them. Because youve got to keep that this will put the above were trying to do. Its all very personal. Thank you for your dedication. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I do have some questions that i will submit for the record. Thank you, mr. Chair been. Also secretary, thank you for being here. Appreciated. I visited with you before about legislation that i put forward, the veterans access to extended care. And its all about makin...

I do catch instances where i wish we were more transparent and better about customer service. The other thing id like to mention. We had a group get together in little rock to discuss reimbursement to providers that have provided outside care. Youll have situations that arise, now with this 40mile rule that the v. A. Owes this money, it appears the v. A. Owes a lot of people in arkansas a lot of money. And has not been very forthcoming in paying those bills. Its another thing that makes it such that the trust issue that we talk about. The other problem is, if you dont pay your bills theyre goi...

With the cuban people. One thing they need is our technology. They have fallen behind us. They need access to more of our products such as Farm Equipment. We have some limitations as what we can ship to cuba. One thing we found, for example we took gifts of fencing tools and a set of wrenches down to them. If some of the professionals that were on our trade delegation werent sure if that was a very good gift to take when we took it to the farmers, they had had tears in their eyes that they went and the subsequent trade mission, they showed us all the fences that were built with our tools that ...

Veterans Affairs Secretary testified on capitol hill tuesday on the 2016 Veterans Affairs budget request. The proposed budget is 168. 8 billion, including funding to expand v. A. Care to veterans and transform the v. A. Into a customer centric department. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Tom fuller was a vietnam veteran and the marines and presented himself to the heinz the a with chest pains and went to see the head of cardiology. He did not want to be at a whim loss record, referred him to the floor and there, tom expired of a heart attack. We want to make sure that kind of thing never...

Of care. Many experienced obstacles while trying to establish needed care being treated in the emergency room. The lack of followup coordination and quality and continuity of care, many of these is troubling and unacceptable. The most troubling issue described in the report was the awareness of the ongoing scheduling and challenges that many facilities face. Furthermore they had opportunities to address the systemic culture of inappropriate scheduling practices. They did not act to address the inappropriate practices of manipulation of wait time data. This lack of accountability was engrajed b...