One must question. Recalling lots of cars, i think 25 million, why would there be so many recalls and and im not suggesting thats a that thats a bad thing, but that is a high number. When we learned what happened, we immediately redoubled our efforts and went and looked at a number of places and we tackled all of those and we ran back extensively and looked at information that we had to see that we could more quickly put together turn. We also as it relates to every safety item that the gentleman had every responsibility for, we assessed this and there is not even any field information to suggest there is an issue. As we do this, simply by an insert into this, we could make the system more robust than and we did that and we are intent upon a company known for our safety and this is an important step and we will continue to look for the items to make sure that we have a company that is dedicated to the safety of our vehicles. I thought of one final question for those employees that were
Is to see to it that veterans get world cap worldclass health care and they get it in a timely way. However we do that the important thing is to get it done. We had some bumps i have met with some of our private contractors and i appreciate those meetings and their confidence in the job that they can do. They may not have been cooperating before. See to it that the two are working seamlessly and if they cant, they will never work. You have to understand their contracts are not just subject to their performance for the veterans but their willingness to work cooperatively. There are some who do not like the nonhealth care v. A. Provisions anyway. They will have to get used to it. We will make this thing work and we will not put a square peg in a round hole. Today, the hearing is important to your report from the v. A. And contractors and later from the v is so vsos they risked their lives for each and everyone of us to be here today we can expect no less at the get the best health care.
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We have a vote on the floor which should be over in the next ten minutes. I will talk a little bit and tell you what i want you to know. I will start with testimony from sloan gibson. Make the note that his staff said that was okay. I want to take extra time because this is an important hearing. Last year culminating with the passage of the veterans choice bill problems in raleigh, denver come orlando and answers that were in completed for understandable reasons. Just left about a year early. Gone as well. There was a transition. There is no excuse for the plethora of problems, and the transition should have been much better, but was not. Va demonstrated that they were finally listening. All i was hearing was nothing but stonewall until finally sloan walked into the hearing, pulled out a new rule to make the number of miles driven which i think everyone in this committee appreciates and agrees with. I believe we are satisfactorily working toward the care you need. It will happen in the
In income. So instead of standing in the corner and figuring out how to bring a trade bill to the floor they ought to be fixing equal pay for equal work, they ought to be fixing Student Loans for our students, they ought to be passing a highway bill, they ought to be increasing the minimum wage, and they ought to deal with currency fairness because our trading partners, they play with their currency in order to push forward their products. But oh, no. That is not on the agenda. We could have an agenda for a vibrant middle class but instead of that, we are moving toward a trade bill. Now, i know there are some who disagree with me, who come down this floor and say were going to create jobs with this trade bill its going to be great. Well let them explain how were not going to see some of the 12 million jobs that are manufacturing jobs in america not move to countries who pay 56 cents an hour. Another country 1. 19 an hour. I know theyll disagree with me. Theyre making all of these promi