His proposal for reforming the federal budget process. The Veterans Affairs undersecretary for health testified at a house hearing today about his departments efforts to improve veterans access to health care and reduce wait times. Congressman jeff miller chairs the committee. Thiss just over two hours. Hearing will come to order. Would you like to welcome everyone to todays hearing entitled, a continued assessment of delays in veterans access to health care. This hearing marks two years since this committee exposed the wait time scandal that has gripped the Department Since 2014. Im proud of the work that we have done in those two years, particularly digging into the actions of bureaucrats who whose selfinterest were put ahead with the veterans they were charged with assisting. The purpose of this hearing is to examine the efforts that va has taken to improve access to care for veterans and to identify where serious issues still exist. Based on the bipartisan work of this committee, g
Untenable position. 40 years of onesided american diplomacy aimed at achieving regional and International Acceptance for israel, thus peversely produced the very opposite. Increasing International Isolation and a program for the jewish state. We will now cover israels back as the saying goes as the United Nations as its angoing maltreatment and intermittent muggings of its captive arab population complete its international delegitimization and ostracism. Well pay a heavy price for this, political price, globally in the middle east, and very likely an escalating terrorism against americans abroad and at home. It may satisfy our sense of honor but it more closely resembles assisted suicide than a strategy for the survival of israel and our position in the middle east. Americans like to have a moral foundation for Foreign Policy, for our policies. In the middle east, and not just with respect to israel, the geology has proven to be complex to allow such a foundation. To take our professed
A maze on her menu without lifting the crayon off the paper. She accomplished this feat by beginning at the finish line of the maze and ending at the start. My child,s watching she was playing out the old management begin with the end in mind. Our reported order begins with the end in mind. The chairman and his hardcharging auction team have focused on the finish line. Freeing up more spectrum for mobile broadband, providing more opportunities for broadcasters, and raising funds to support our First Responders. I am also pleased that the report in order is largely faithful to the Central Building blocks to a successful incentive auction. Simplicity, fairness, balance, and Public Safety. Simplicity is key. Incentive auctions are an undeniably complex undertaking. At every structural juncture, i believe a bias towards simplicity is crucial. I am pleased that we choose simplicity with the dissenting clock auction rules we adopt today. Design provides a simple onramp to the auction and all
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Hearings today. Secretary of state nominate Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions and transportation nominee elaine chao periods we sing life fox news coverage, standing by on the Rex Tillerson confirmation hearing but we begin with john roberts life at trump tower in new york city. Good afternoon to you, quite a scene as hundreds of journalists packed into the lobby to hear donald trump give his First Press Conference since being elected president back on november 8th. Very much a combative press conference, wide ranging one but focusing mostly on these allegations that russia has been compiling a dossier of confirmation, compromising insulation information used against donald trump to blackmail him. He pushed strongly against it not just him, but mike pence, his running mate and incoming press secretary at sean spicer, calling it disgraceful, not worth the paper it is written on, saying it is all fake news and calling a lot of news organizations who published that, specifically buzzfeed, whic