Our phone lines are open also a special line for veterans. You can catch up with us on your favorite social media pages, on twitter, facebook, or email us at journal cspan. Org. A very good saturday morning. The Eric Shinseki resignation playing out on the front pages of newspapers across the country. Here it is in the Washington Posts. To the kansas city star, there is a picture of Eric Shinseki yesterday at the National Coalition for homeless veterans, where he made a speech apologizing for delayed atment, and other service for delayed treatment and other service lapses at the ba. The headline there onto the arizona republic, the home state paper of the phoenix of thefacility phoenix v. A. Facility a quote from president obama. He Richmond Times dispatch already talked about the search for shinsekis since sasser for shinsekis successor. Times york that is the topic we are talking about for the first half of todays washington journal. Before we get to your calls i want to play you a l
Other thing about the senatee. The senate is a very democratic place. Everybody has a chance to be number 60. Enabled by the fact we had a couple of democrats who voted no. But, yeah. Every other day some senator decided to be number 60 and we had to do something. The numbers changed during that as well. It was constantly a moving target. Let me mention Something Else as well to this audience since many of you are involved in the business today. We have left the congress but as ve greatver i ha reverence for the institutions i have served in. It is going through a terrible time. Something different from those of you who come from the perspective the Financial Services sector. The days where you have people like howard baker and bob dole are gone. Me, theyrowd, believe look at these issues in a very different way. Populism in aof a way that is worrisome to me in terms of how they look at the Financial Services sector. One of the classic examples we when you had rand paul guam the langua
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
At Tuesday s Kankakee County Executive Committee meeting, Karen Smietanski, assistant superintendent of the VAC of Kankakee County, requested interfund borrowing from the county to cover expenses until the VAC receives
At Tuesday s Kankakee County Executive Committee meeting, Karen Smietanski, assistant superintendent of the VAC of Kankakee County, requested interfund borrowing from the county to cover expenses until the VAC receives