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We announced these changes than the secretary of defense, general dempsey said it will result in better aligning our structures and resources with dod Strategic Interests and priorities. And earlier this year we directed the management review in that review developed options to help the dod plan for a range of future budget scenarios, including the persistence of sequester lover untracked level cuts. And as all of you know, these threats, and less changed, will represent a 500 billiondollar reduction over the next 10 years, and that is in addition with a 480 billion spending cut that the dod h...

No wonder mr. Can sit down and look at all the numbers the va is working on that are generated on a daily basis. Congress has never denied the va a single penny for doing its job. The current budget, over 54 billion is being paid out to veterans and direct benefits. The balance of their budget that they receive right now is for administration of their business. But they are not doing business properly. I could see here for hours and gave the statement after statement after statement of egregious behavior. Wrongful denials and in some cases the liver of malfeasance. All we ask is you continue t...

On cspan. I was tremendously grateful that god would give me another chance. I had been rescued. When i was confronted with addiction, i made my mind i was going to survive that. Program on betty for today at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan and live monday night our series continues. They covered my Mental Health work, the first few meetings i had, and then they never showed up anymore. Walking on the floor in the white house, i met one of the press people. Said nobody ever comes to meetings. She said it is not a sexy issue. Foundred the country, and that what was needed, develop legislation, and ...

I fit in this thing called family. And i started using drugs. I ended up homeless. I did that on and off for about 3 years. I finally ended up at my local va, where i went into their Substance Abuse program. I abused, anything that was amphetamine like cocaine, methamphetamines. You name it, i pretty much did itanything to get rid of kinda what i was feeling. I was also a selfmutilator. It allowed me to feel some kind of emotion, some kind of pain, i guess, it was the inward pain that i couldnt express i was able to do outwardly. And i eventually ended up in a Substance Abuse program. I then f...

You can see cars are just jammed up here. Heading eastbound on 92. This the last thing you need f youre waiting for someone going back to the east bay or planning to make the commute yourself going to take a long time for this to unfold. You can see car just covered in fire retardant. 1 eastbound lane was lobing closed but with foam retardant on the freeway, that caused more lanes to shut down. We have two lanes of traffic moving through now. Your alternatives, dunbarton bridge or the bay bridge. You can see oncoming traffic will be affected by this. Its light as they slowly let cars come thro...