President s oftrepeated promise. Perhaps the administration would like to tell him he should have just done a better job of keeping up with its regulatory dictates. But what about the millions who purchased their plans relying on the president s promise that they could keep them . What about the husbands and wives across kentucky who suffered when two of our largest employers had to drop Spousal Coverage . What about the folks who lost coverage at work . What about all the smaller paychecks and lost jobs . What about the parttimeization of our economy . This law, mr. President , is a mess, its a mess. As secretary sebelius has said herself yesterday, the system is not functioning. Now, maybe she was referring to no more than the narrow problems with healthcare. Gov, but as the president keeps reminding us over and over again, obamacare is about more than just a web site. Hes right about that. And thats why if the system is not functioning, its just another sign that obamacare itself is
In cspans sundays at eight. Now available at your favorite bookseller. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. At noon on cspan, the only russian lawmaker to vote against russias annex sakes of crimea will be speaking at the Heritage Foundation in washington, d. C. About russia politics, the russia very you Russia Ukraine conflict and u. S. russian relations. You can watch that at 12 p. M. Eastern on cspan. The House Veterans Affairs subcommittee held a hearing addressing the benefits claims backlog and veterans making the transition to civilian life. This is about two hours and 20 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome, everyone. The oversight hearing of the subcommittee on disabilities and Memorial Affairs will now come to order. Todays hearing will focus upon vas role in the transition from Service Member to veteran with a particular focus on the integrated Disability Evaluation System com
James, is this the kind of respect that you get . [laughter] on television, it looks like you are addressing a full room. It is a mirage. Sorry about that. Do you think anybody elses showing up . I want to come out here to tell you that jay is prepared for all of your questions. He is very much looking forward to the session. I want to let you know that over the next couple of weeks, there will be a whole range of issues, immigration, economics, we will try to arrange a folder press conference. Fuller press conference. The reason i wanted to come out today is not to take questions, but to speak to an issue that has a lot of attention over the course of the last week. The issue of the Trayvon Martin ruling. I gave a preliminary statement after the ruling on sunday, but watching the debate over the course of the last week, i thought it might be useful for me to expand on my thoughts. First of all, i want to make sure once again, i sent my thoughts and prayers to the family of Trayvon Mar
And he gets no recognition from the va for that effort. And they need it badly. Thank you, congressman. Thank you. I thank the entire panel for being here today. I go back, as a young military medical officer during the vietnam era, and i was thinking as i was listening to the testimony, what training i had had and i am an ob gyn doctor what training i had going into the military and what training i received in the military to deal with this. And i can tell you, as for what i received in the military, it was nothing. Military sexual trauma has been going on just logically thinking about it, we knew it was happening outside the military. Why wouldnt it occur inside the military . Why would it be occurring in the civilian world, and i get drafted, and the next day it is not an issue . Today, there are a lot more women serving. It is amazing how many women now are doing a phenomenal job in the military. There is that issue there. I think what we have to do, as a scientist, you identify th
Say the city of detroit needs to work it out with their creditors, are you then ruling out any federal aid of some sort . People and others ask the question of are we going to solve this problem, it has been made clear by local leaders and that leaders, and by us, the broader issue is one that needs to be resolved between the city and its creditors. We will, of course, as we would with any city in this country, work with that city and have a policy discussions with leaders in the city and make suggestions and offer assistance where we can. I think it is important to that the broader issue say, i have as i have several times already today, when the local leaders say the matter of insolvency is one that has to be resolved between the city and its creditors, we concur with that. We are going to work with detroit, moving forward, to help it move forward, but i do not have a specific idea to present to you today. Pensionederal guarantee youre asking the wrong person. Maybe you will need to