Health and other issues facing veterans is Tom Tarantino, a former army captain and current chief. Announcement last weekend a good sign for veterans waiting for their benefits claims to be processed . Guest it was an expected announcement. The backlog has been reduced by about 1 3, which is outstanding news. There is some light at the end of the tunnel. We have about 400,000 claims still in the inventory. They were going to halt the mandatory overtime. We expect it to resume after the holidays in february. We have 400,000 claims. If they want to make their goal, it is going to require overtime and other initiatives that have put into gear that have started this trend downward. Host 400,000 claims that is down from 600,000 claims in march. Talk about the impact of the government shutdown. How did that affect the claims . Guest it slowed it down. We averted a potential disaster. The processors were technically protected. The v. A. Could not accept any new claims but they could continue
Case of the ffm, or the Actual Exchange itself, each component was tested by us independently come a verified, security tested, and it was not signed off in a complete package, so we signed a shortterm authorization to operate, which would be customary if you were continuing to do work on the project. You also mention this information that goes in there is just pinged in there and not stored. How do you identify the person later if there is not any of that information kept . The Social Security number is not stored in the data hub. When you have completed an application, it has this information, and an individual can store that online. That is part of the proofing that an individual can do to store their application. We also have some storage in what i will call the enrollment eligibility in case there is an appeal. What i was trying to say theres no data stored in the hub. We have information on record. I do not think people are cared where it is stored. They care about their privacy.
More than one faith. This case is about christians aggressively imposing themselves on their fellow citizens with the power of government. That is not right. It is not part of the american tradition. Can we get the plaintiffs . Susan galloway. I am susan galloway. I am one of the plaintiffs. I just want to thank americans united for being our attorneys and representing us. I appreciate the justices hearing this case. I think it is important. I feel the town has aligned itself with christianity by just having christian prayer givers. They have had a couple other people but primarily it is christian. That is very sectarian. As a citizen i felt i was different. And because of my own faith and my own religious beliefs. Im glad that the Supreme Court is hearing this. Is there anything what are your religious beliefs . I am a jew. Why did it make you feel uncomfortable . I think that when you have people that, first of all, the town, the pastors face the people, not to the government. It is
Pointing the finger in a different direction, this questioner asks how protection can be advanced while investors themselves continually ask for high risk high return investments . I am not speaking as i dont think it is our job to tell people what risks they take and what risks they dont take. The financial industry as a whole must participate in the efforts of the government and regulators to make sure that systemic risks are muted to the fullest extent possible. Individuals in our society invest. When they invest, they take risk. If somebody wants to invest in a more risky way to get a higher return, that is their right. If they want to invest in a more conservative way to protect their resources and not have any downside, that is their right to o. That is an individual choice. Back to regulations, can you give us some specifics of regulations that you think have gone too far and what are you looking to change precisely . The original proposals on the issue would have forced out of
Helicopters took off from the airfield to join in the battle to fire down on the attackers. The fire fight took about two hours, at the end of which all the attackers were dead. We believe there were about nine in total, including those in the suicide car bombs. Now, the coalition here has said none of the attackers managed to breach the walls and get inside the base. Officials say these three Afghan Soldiers and two civilians were killed on this base, which is located in an area that nato recently turned over to Afghan Forces for security. How could this affect security, do you think, moving forward . Well, its handover security that everyones looking at. The strategy is we build up the afghan army and the afghan takes over combat duties and that allows all the nato troops and british troops and american troops to go home. This attack shows that despite nato saying they reversed the momentum, the taliban is still more than capable of attacking these big bases, launching wellcoordinate