Host of the National War College. The last government job you worked for the director of national intelligence. Thank you [applause] there wasnt a single founder who doubted that going to war was the most important decision the republic could make. War is the greatest threat to the public. War focuses power on the executive saying since the executive has more incentive to go to war the founders placed the power of going to war the congress not the executive. The founder who understood war better than any president was George Washington who gave a long farewell address and spelled out the Foreign Policy of the foreigners. He said we should stay neutral in war and cut all foreign powers because they will entangle us in their wars. To support neutrality washington said be leerly and not to borrow more money than we can pay off and avoid political factions. Sounds good me. I am sticking with george. Harvey is the moderator. Bruce you will go first and then john and harvey is going to ask q
Have been occurring on a regular basis since Early September so i would like to thank you and i appreciate the time that you have invested in openly communicating with the staff on the house and the senate side of the committee on the implementation issues in the progress that you have been making on this implementation issues. In the va i hope it is a precedent for improving relationships as we go forward. The law provided Additional Resources and authorities to provide for the key improvements for veterans. Timely access to health care, expansion of the internal capacity and the indication of the benefits. Today i hope you will hear tangible ways that benefits. The veterans are getting the outcomes intended. If there are roadblocks to the implementation you need to know what they are and how it can be fixed on those roadblocks. With regards to timely access to health care i am aware that the department has expressed serious concerns with the 90 day deadline on the Choice Program. The
The two remaining witnesses on the panels are noshow. They were invited, accepted the invitations and confirmed them of their attendance and we informed them the hearing will proceed so it is unfutunate they have chosen not to chose this official hearing. We will go ahead with the witnesses who did proceed. Thank you very much for coming down from rhode island for this hearing. Thank you. It as a pleasure to be here. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today. I am an associate professor at the Brown University center for health. I earned by doctorate from ha r hararharava harvard. Shortterm ozone exposure and health effects. This is based on studies over decades and showing that ozone leads to increased deaths, hospital visits, increased symptoms and more medical use and reduced air function and reduced air levels. A 2010 study by the scientist at emory found in the atlanta area, ozone was linked to higher rates of hospital visits for asthma even at levels below the current standa
Its not a coincidence that its the First Amendment to our constitution. And its not a coincidence that the terrorists chose an element of the press in france, the free press, as their target. Yet here in the United States and in europe theres there are signs, have been signs of a sort of unilateral intellectual disarmament in the face of these kinds of threats. We all saw the pusillanimous initial reaction of sony to the threats of the north koreans. We saw that the Associated Press pulled Charlie Hebdo cartoons from its gallery because they were afraid some of them might be hurtful to people. For a week the Washington Post here refused to publish the cartoons. Thanks to the brave men who run the editorial page they did publish the cartoon on the editorial page last week. But the paper itself refused to publish it. They did in the end finally. And the American Government took quite a while to figure out what to call these events. First they didnt call them a terrorist event. Then they
Screeria nigeria. A look at the financial influence that outside groups have in todays elections. Next, a look at irs operations and how budget cuts have impacted the agencys ability to provided equate Customer Service. From washington journal this is an hour. At the time table nina olson the National Taxpayer advocate here to join us to talk about budget cuts and Customer Service. Related issues. Remind us what your job is. What does a National Taxpayer advocate do . The National Taxpayer advocate leads an organization within the irs that is charged with helping taxpayers solve problems with the irs and make administrative and legislative recommendations to congress about how to improve how the irs treats taxpayers and protect taxpayer rights. How long have you been doing this job . Since march, 2001. Your office put out this annual report to congress so we can take a look at it here. One of the headlines that came from it is from the new york times. Need help from the irs . It may ta