Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person and those that are appearing distancely. We look forward to their testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the Third Party Administrators are in administering the mission act. Im also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation, as well. Almost every member of our committee, though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us, almost every member of our committee will be participating and is expected in todays hearing. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title 1 under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs related to Veterans Community care programs and the program of comprehensive assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While va officials were
For those two companies, it was a tale of two different big tech quarters alphabet has certainly been the laggard this year. Underperforming not just its big tech peers, but the nasdaq amazon has been a standout, 70 gains. Alphabet had a low bar and amazon had a high one. Did they deliver we can look at a number of metrics, what i want to drill down on particularly is cloud. These are the companys newer growth engines cloud numbers came in only in line with expectations revenue up 29 year over year. Love large numbers but google cloud, revenue was up 45 and now the company is going to break it out as its own segment. Have a listen to what was said last night. Given the progress we are making and the opportunity for the cloud in this growing global market, we continue to invest aggressively in our gotomarket capabilities and extending the global footprint you will see information about the scale of our investments so investors are going to be able to see exactly how much google is inves
Good morning. This hearing will now come to order. I am pleased to welcome our distinguished panel of Witnesses Today is the economic and security subcommittee. He focuses on the very important topic that i think has a lot of bipartisan interest in. And that is the economic and geostrategic challenge that the rise of china poses for the United States. Much as today, but in the future. China, communist party, Peoples Republic Party of china. Unfair trade practices, intellectual property theft and market manipulation and very prominently in my view, m nonreciprocal treatment. Not just an economic room but in many realms. It has been a force in the Global Economy that undercuts the resiliency and strength of the u. S. Economy. China has been one of the worlds Fastest Growing economies. Averaging close to 10 percent growth from 1979 to 2016. In 2014, china was the Worlds Largest economy and nursing power bases according to the international monetary. I believe there is a strong bipartisan
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