At the local cbac, its not going to be any good to them at all. I have two questions for you. Va needs to provide all nonva with access to the patient record system to ensure that Community Health care providers can review the medical history for couldnt knew its in care purposes. You referred to the lack of coordination between the nonva providers and the va in getting the documentation so the health care file is complete, is that right . Correct. And i agree with you. No systems going to work if you dont have the medical history of the patient and services hes received in one place accessible. The va has been working on an Electronic Health record for years now with very little success. Their plan calls for taking the snapshot, the vlj process, i believe, which is a virtual snapshot of a veterans record and incorporating that initially as part of the health record, and then moving on with a feature design of a more coordinated health record. I think that for any process to work, youre going to have to allow a virtual Electronic Health record, and thats the whole Health Care Industry is struggling with. But youre going to have to develop a virtual Electronic Health record that is transportable and shareable between any health care institution. And so until we get to that point, youre going to still see the challenges of sharing Electronic Health information either way, between the va versus nonva provider and vice versa. You just hit the nail on the head. Because the biggest problem, forget about the Va Health Care for a second. The biggest obstacle that health care has is these systems that dont talk to each other. Its great having the information, but if you dont get them talking to each other, you cant have an ease of a file. If were going to make this thing work, and if its going to work the way youd suggest youd be supportive of it working in your conclusion, the first hurdle is how to make the systems interoperable to get the information accessible by the a physician and veteran as well. Our new technology lady, has she figured out how to do that yet . [ inaudible ] so some requests being described is actually available. I think that observation that you made, roscoe, in your testimony is key to make this thing function and doing it well. And i appreciate you bringing that point out. Appreciate all of you being here to testify. I think it was very effective. We look forward to working with the va and all the vested parties to see to it as we roll this plan out and implement it, it works for the people were here to serve, and thats the veterans of the United States military. With that, we stand adjourned. Federal reserve chair januajanet yellen will testify on the hill thursday morning. 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Id like to welcome everyone to this joint hearing of the House Armed Services committee on Strategic Forces and the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on terrorism, trade and nonproliferation on russian arms control cheating, violation of the inf treaty and the administrations response one year later. Testifying today are the following witnesses, the honorable rose gottemoeler, department of state, and the honorable brian mckeown, Principal Deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, department of defense. This is an update to last years hearing with these witnesses and were eager to learn what the administration has been doing since we met in open and closed sessions on this topic last december. Congress as i promised last year has not been sitting idle, the recently enacted ndaa included section 1243 which directs the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to begin the research and development of military responses Response Options to russias violation. Inf is, of course, not the only treaty or agreement that russia is violating. We learned from miss gottmoeler during last years hearing on 8 of 12 treaties and agreements russia is not in compliance or is in outright violation of those obligations. Inf has earned a lot of attention but what about the weapons convention, the biological convention, the openskies treaty. Are we less concerned about Russian Chemical or bloj kwal weapons that could be used against the United States . Of course not. Also, this is the first opportunity for many members to ask the administration about the recent russian disclosure of a nuclear powered, Nuclear Warhead that occurred during a review of russias Nuclear Forces that included its president vladimir putin. According to the russian translations of what was disclosed this weapon would provide russia with a new capability to damage, quote, the important components of the adversarys economy in coastal areas and inflicting unacceptable damage to the countrys territory by creating areas of wide radioactive contamination that would be unsustainable for military, economic or other activity for long periods of time, close quote. What does that say about a country that feels that Nuclear Weapons are such a significant a tool of its military and strategy to disclose its systems in this manner . And what does it say about a country that would invest resources in such a weapon . Its just nuts. Yet the only time the president talks about our president talks about Nuclear Weapons is when he wants to propose reducing them. The worlds paying attention. We need our president to change his rhetoric. So, we have a lot to talk about today. Im looking forward to learning what the administration has been up to since this time last year. Im looking forward to hearing to learning about the military assessment and review of military options that the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general dempsey produced, whether in the open hearing or the closed session. With that id like to turn things over to chairman poe for any Opening Statement he may have. Thank the chairman. Last year we held a hearing on this same topic in december of last year. It seems like its ground hog day. Here we are again and we all agree that russia violated the treaty but were still talking about what the appropriate response should be. Russia is not someone that is our friend, our ally and we certainly cant take them for their word. 2008 the same year russia violated the inf treaty it invaded a sovereign country georgia. Ive been to georgia. Ive seen the russian tanks on the hills. Seven years later russia still occupies a third of that nation. Last year putin was at it again. He told the world that Russian Troops were not in crimea while the world watched russian tanks and little green men come into that area. Russia is conducting strikes in syria to prop up a dictator that has murdered thousands of syrians. Putin seems to want to expand its empire and the russian bear is out of the cage and its time we recognized them for what they are doing, being aggressive. Its no surprise that russia is breaking its word when it comes to a signed arms control treaty. The Nuclear Forces treaty is a treaty between the United States which places limits on ground launched and ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers and the United States has held up our bargain the russians have not. According to press reports it appears the russians have tested a Ground Launched Cruise Missile. They have responded it is a seabased missile which does not fall under the treaty. That is nonsense. According to press releases the administration seems to have known about the violations back in 2008. Took three years for the administration to report concern about the russian compliance in congress. Took six years for the state department to officially find the russians in violation and this year the state department repeated its findings that the russians are in violation of the treaty. Chairman rogers and i have made several attempts to appeals to the state department and department of defense about this issue. Candidly the responses weve gotten back have led me to believe were not taking the issue as seriously as we should. We have so far made no substantial progress in bringing the russians back into compliance. After seven years there have been no consequences for the violation of the treaty. Weve told the russians our concerns and their response, the russians deny theyre violating the treaty. What id like to know is what i asked last year. What are the next steps. How are we going to convince the russians that we do mean business if we do mean business. Whats the administration going to do to hold the russians feet to the fire and hold them accountable . There are some who want to go easy on the russians in that they want to ignore this situation. I dont think that that is appropriate response the United States should have toward the russians and the stockpiling of or the stockpiling of these violations. So, i look forward to what the witnesses have to say, to be upfront, candid, blunt about what is the strategy, what are we doing, what is the United States and our allies doing. And then we have the problem of two rogue nations already developing very similar weapons that we and the russians have supposedly agreed not to the develop and that would be iran and pakistan developing similar weapons. So, what is the United States response going to be and what do we plan to do about it. And i will yield back to the chairman. I thank the gentleman. The chair now recognizes my friend and colleague from tennessee the Ranking Member mr. Cooper for any statement he may have. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I think we would all like to welcome our colleagues from the Foreign Affairs committee. We hope that they will treat us kindly at the next ndaa when it comes to sequential referrals but we are always welcome in the Armed Services committee room. I also hope our friends from Foreign Affairs can join us in the classified session to follow this hearing. In fact, it would be good if this public portion were kept as short as possible so that we can learn as much as possible in the classified session. Everyone knows that mr. Putin doesnt conduct his business in public. And why give him an advantage by displaying our deliberations. We have before us today two very distinguished public servants. I look forward to hearing their testimony. And i also hope that our colleagues will bear in mind that International Relations are not black and white. Particularly when it comes to russia. I know that our chairman is very sensitive to the issue of the rd180 rockets. Which unfortunately we depend on quite heavily for u. S. Assured access to space. And its kind of an amazing thing throughout the perils of the cold war weve always had a pretty reliable supply of those rockets. So, nothing is black or white. No one is defending mr. Putin. We know that they cheat. Were outraged by their takeover of crimea, the invasion of ukraine and the bombing of antiassad forces in syria but its important that the meat of this hearing be held in the classified session that will be upcoming so i look forward to seeing all of my colleagues upstairs in a few minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I thank the gentleman. The chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. Keating, for any Opening Statement he may have. Thank you for conducting this timely hearing. I would also like to thank our two witnesses for being here today to discuss intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty, both in this hearing and later on in the classified briefing to follow. I understand that there are limited to what you can say and disclose in this setting, but i appreciate the opportunity to discuss publicly the issue of russias compliance with the inf treaty, something i think thats important for the public to know but not necessarily details that will advantage the russians. 28 years after the inf treaty was signed it remains one of the most important Nuclear Treaties that the United States has ever signed with russia. The state department and numerous observers have stated that russias developed, produced and flight tested a Ground Launched Cruise Missile in clear violation of the inf treaty. Russian violation of the inf treaty as with the violation of any treaty would be a serious matter. I look forward to further details regarding the particular russian weapons system at issue and a discussion of what its deployment would mean for russia in terms of its military strategy and how it would impact the security in europe and in asia importantly. If russia is found noncompliant with the United States in conjunction with our allies should use all the tools at our disposal to urge russia to stop. Its critical that the united