Nothing to earn my vote and Bernie Sanders represented my personal beliefs. Today, Hillary Clinton will appear in deck in o then in San Francisco with Elizabeth Banks and both california senators at 5 00. There could be lane closings and congestion. The delegate math is not in her favor with supporters of Bernie Sanders believe Hillary Clinton is vulnerable and their candidate can win. The bernie bus arrived for the first time yesterday. We will there when it stopped at berkeley city schedule. The bus is driven around the nation by sanders earliest supporters, National Nurses united. Bernie vote will be all over, at rallies, farmers markets and the nurses are engaged in the sanders campaign. He is determined to finish this out expect to see a lot more of the big red bus 20 new and june 7 primary. Donald trumps controversial Cinco De Mayo tweet specificked outrage among some people. Happy Cinco De Mayo, the best taco bowls are made in trump tower grill, i love hispanics. He is eating a
[ room noise ] okay. All our new mayors that are in the audience, please stand up. We need to see you and know who you are. [ applause ] all right. We know this group will be instrumental in defining our priorities and helping this organization go forward. I am now very pleased to bring to the podium one of those rookie mayors. She is from the great city the District Of Columbia. Mayor bowser served as a City Council Member for eight years prior to being elected. For yearly 35 years the conference has been fully supportive of full Voting Rights for the District Of Columbia. [ applause ] mayors lets give a round of applause for Muriel Bowser thank you. Well, good afternoon, mayors. And welcome to your nations capital, my hometown, our capital city, washington, d. C. And thank you, mayor johnson, for your kind introduction. But most importantly for your leadership of this conference and your great city. Im honored to stand before you as mayor of the District Of Columbia and bring you gre
And grow the communities in which we live and work. Over the last few years, our collaboration with the United States conference of mayors has of course, first centered on the practical needs of our cities. But our alliance through the last few years has become so much more as it has established a Solid Foundation for us to build on into the future. Together we worked effectively on important issues related directly to the nations crisis. They were practical they were focused on foreclosure prevention, Property Maintenance and care and the promotion of responsible homeownership. Together we shared concerns we created plans from best practices and then we developed the necessary unique actions needed within your communities with answers directly provided to the constituents at our outreach events directly held in your cities. One of those events is our neighborhood lift. We are very proud energized, and excited about our Neighborhood Lift Program. It is one that helps promote affordable
Choice and the history of entertainment at the dinner. Heres a bit of that conversation. For awhile they used to do musicalabilities, and believe it or not a juggling act at some point. That was a long time ago. But since the association started having come eedians come and serve as the entertainer shell be the fourth woman to have done that. I dont know its always a latenight white guy. Which is great. Those guys are funny. But its really important to have different perspectives represented at a podium like that and i just think shes funny. And i think shes shes sharp and cutting and i think shell bring it down to size a little bit. Thats part of the fun. Watch our live coverage of the white house correspondents dinner, starting at 6 30 p. M. Eastern saturday on our companion network cspan. In 2014 the department of Homeland Security was rated the worst federal agency to work for, with nasa being the best. Thats from a recent survey by the office of Personnel Management. The survey us
Successful program we also want to do. I would add we are doing a lot of research in this area to predict better responses to opioid use because thats very, very critical. That gets back to the notion of an informed conversation between a clinician and a veteran, family and so forth. Right. One final question. We were just talking about the Health Workforce at the va. One of the things that ive certainly observed in rural medicine, for example, if you receive your training there, perhaps if you were born and raised in a rural environment, youre likely to make a commitment in your career to remaining there. I think the same is very much true with regard to the va. In the va reform law passed last year i authored a provision that included an increase by 1,500 over five years the number of gme residency positions. It is my understanding in this first year of implementation, 204 new resident positions were added. I would like for you to give me a status update on the programs implementatio