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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 If you dont do that, then youre building the transformed system on outdated policies that may or hey not have ever been appropriate.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 presiden...

20,000 vets were either ignored or workers who were hiding the delays. The problem isnt getting any better. The number of appointments that take longer than 90 days to complete has doubled and now goals calling for patients to be seen within 30 days is not being met. At last check 6,000 veterans at the va hospital in philadelphia wait 30 days or more to see a doctor. With me now is new jersey congressman donald norcross, the sponsor of a bill called the veterans freedom of health care act. It will give veterans the right to choose where they receive their care. The congressman is a member of t...

This is video from eagle 8 hd. The Highway Patrol tells us the bus driver, 63yearold Marilyn Kay Ray turned left into the path of the suv. We also have exclusive cell phone video from right after the crash. And if you look closely you can see children crying. Other students screaming from the bus. Two of those children had to be taken to the hospital. We spoke with one student about what happened. The bus was turning very fast, i was playing on my phone. When they crashed, my head hit my phone and the seat. When i got back up, the car was crashed and i was just very scared and very worried. 32...

The hearing will come to order. We are here to discuss the president s fiscal year 2016 budget request for the department of Veterans Affairs. Mr. Secretary, welcome to the committee. Understand that your testimony will be a little bit different today than what we are accustomed to with reference to chart to help us better understand what you are seeing in terms of the challenges that lay ahead and i would say that is indeed a welcome change. So too is the open as you have had with me with members of this committee and this congress about your plans to change the culture at the va. As your tes...

Values, the kurds themselves, are the largest minority population in the world. Without a country themselves. Therefore, the same question would be posed for them. Not sure it would be long. The message the Committee Received from the government is that they desperately need equipment, what is the government response for that . Can i throw it back at you and ask what specifically they requested . Machine guns, we saw that. They wanted armored vehicles, things like that to assist them. Request to the uk government at that time . The defense secretary visited recently, and certainly, as has been...