Its important to tell a story. He survived an tactic the cost him to devote his life as a bomb tech. Others serving eight years in activeduty, retired step sergeant such as the food came pain to serve veterans pretty for alongside on capitol hill and policy and House Veteran Affairs committee and the department of defense. And if in fact, you may have even seen him in a movie lincoln. Memorial day, is a day of reverence for any and celebrating the fact that they were americans. Dan was for golf professional and founder a Nonprofit Organization that is it more than 125 million of scholarships. The families of disabled or fallen warriors. Dan has included three tours of duty continues to serve at the base at the three and a first fire tears squadron. He won the call of Service Award and distinguished metal and iraqis freedom metal. Hes the author of the upcoming book, how to harness and faith on your assent to direct great its pretty. Kim hook or hot water, we were going to avenge and ma
Thank you for your service past and present to the country and to fellow veterans. We are honored to work alongside you. That is exactly what we will do over the next few days. We will be working together. Not in a typical way and not our daytoday work. You will have an opportunity to pause and take a step back from the day to day grind and challenges. All of those things we struggle with every day and think about what we are doing and why. Are going to think about what we know and what we dont know. Those of you know me know that formal remarks are not my specialty. I want to show hands, how many of you that when we set it will be data, where like all. A show hands. It is okay. I am a selfprofessed data geek. I had that feeling to. I want to talk to you about why data is important. Sometimes it feels abstract and disconnected from reality. Sometimes it is dry and boring. Not really connected to the veterans we serve every day. We are here to serve veterans but data can help you we can
Occasion. We begin tonight [inaudible conversations] avec program appropriately with a presentation of colors followed by the singing of the National Anthem please rise. The osage nuc via the dawn dawns ey light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there of status that starspangled banner yet wave music mac or the land of the free and the home of the brave please thank the honor guard and ken kaplan for that special tribute to the nation. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, i am the event director for the Richard Nixon foundation and its a pleasure to have you over here tonight. Thursday of last week marked the 75th anniversary of the operation overlord, the largest invasion in history and a turning point of world war ii. A day that is rememb
For military construction and the department of Veterans Affairs. During the last congress 3 trillion was spent outside of the normal appropriations process. As spending soared, so did inflation. There was danger, damage done to the economy and the work of the Appropriations Committee changed significantly over those two years. Thats why islanderrier this year i asked subcommittee chairs to evaluate all of the funding in the pipeline. When the president s budget finally arrived, i directed them to review each Agency Budget line by line. I want to thank the subcommittee chairs for their work to identify ways to save hardearned tax dollars. These savings have allowed us to reduce overall spending without shortchanging, most Important National defense and Homeland Security and veterans. The bill before us demonstrates our commitment to reduce overall spending and still honor our commitment to our veterans. This bill makes good on that promise by fully funding Veterans Health care while en
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