We are glad to have become today. We will change the methodology little bit. We have two votes. When i 2 45 and one following that vote. We are going to run the hearing continuously. We going to waive Opening Statements. We will go straight to secretary mcdonell to make his full statement. Then we will go into q and a. With your cooperation, will work with those two votes. If we do shutdown, it will only be for a couple minutes. Let me welcome everybody to this meeting of the Center Veterans affairs meeting. I think todays hearing will be equally as good as last week. The commission on care is a great project that examined the veteran administrations Delivery System for our veterans and had a lot of recommendations. A lot of provoking recommendations. I appreciate the embrace that secretary mcdonell has given to ideas from others that have come in. We have talked a little bit about them. He will have a great testimony. ,et me welcome the secretary Robert Mcdonald to make his testimony.
Corrosive damage to our National Security is not the result of objective factors, logic or reason. Its not that we have some new breakthrough in military technology or some novel strategic insight that somehow provides the same security for a smaller budget. Its not that sequester is forced upon us that makes taking grave security risks absolutely necessary. Its surely not the case that the world has suddenly become more stable. Or that america has less to do to keep it safe. Allowing us to take a peace dividend. Its not even that these cuts solve the nations overall fiscal challenges because the sad math is that theyre large and sudden enough to damage defense but fail to resolve our longterm fiscal issues and the real drivers of the deficit and debt. Sequester was not the result of objective factors. Sequester is purely the fallout of political gridlock. Its purpose was to compel prudent compromise on our longterm fiscal challenges. Compromise that never came. This has been compounde
You have a request for an additional 100 million. In the president s 2016 intudget 116 million for antimike robe qual resistant research. Thank you and ill submit my questions for the recorder. Now to the gentlelady from connecticut. Let me follow up on my colleague, mr. Dents, questions on antibiotic resistant bacteria. There is a significant increase in the budget. Can you talk about the new technique discovered to deal with this and also there is some misunderstanding of how long its going to take to be able to use that. Can you give us an idea about how long a timeline for the potential availability of, and i dont know if im pronouncing it right, but tecksabat. Recently i was in haiti and i met a doctor who talked about the eablet resistant tuberculosis. Are there drugs in the pipeline to treat drug resistant t. B. . And again, finally, i understand youre dealing with looking at a database. For this effort. Antibiotic resistant infections. But there are many of them pork tu to put
D. C. , not by the government or not by any any local agency. So, it is it is one of those difficult questions that i think is going to take a lot more work than 90 days to resolve. Susan final comment . Sari i just wanted to add one thing that seemed important today, especially because commissioner ramsey is not here. When this report came out, a lot of Police Officers were very upset because they felt it was a broad rash and painted a very negative picture of the police. And i asked lee went through the Police Academy and through the fbi training to see and understand it. And i went to Firearms Training when you go through a simulator and you are in the darkness, and someone comes out of you and you have to shoot or be shot. And i think i was killed several times because it is really difficult, and it is really hard to be a Police Officer in america. Susan thanks to both of you for your questions this week. Appreciate your time. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015