Program or were gutting the Choice Program is absolutely positively wrong, proven by the data. 6 billion weve overspent 6 billion this year in in Community Care. Community care is absolutely essential. I think the issue is your hepatitis c drug, 1. 5 billion or whatever the number is for hepatitis c is part of the issue, and i dont think any one of us thinks that we should not be providing that drug. In no budget submission that i can recall was it discussed about that, although im hoping that somebody and ms. Brown actually talked about the forecasting that somebody was looking at the approval of that drug and that it was coming on and that if it did come on that it was going to cause a significant issue as it relates to the nonva care item, line item he, of 6 billion, which is gone now, its never been gone before, but all of a is sudden this year its disappeared. And my question was if we didnt have the pot of money that youre looking at now to solve this crisis, how would we solve t
Again, there was still no mention of a Hospital Systemwide shutdown. And finally at the hearing on june 25th itself there was no mention of a Hospital System shutdown coming in august. Mr. Secretary, im disappointed about the slow, painstaking revelation of this crisis by the department thats led by you. I understand their excuses as to why we are in it this position, however, somebody somewhere took their eye off the ball. Just as congress established a cap on spending for the denver project that va busted, Congress Also provided a budget for va for fiscal year 2015 which the president signed into law and it, too, is now busted. In both instances va has Left Congress with very little time to react to a crisis created by vas own management decisions. While we will not penalize veterans for vas management, or transparency failures, the days when va can come to congress and just say cut us a check are gone. Asking for flexibility without supporting information is not enough. Similar to t
The senate was in session on sunday. They did authorize the export import bank. By now, current funding for transportation projects is set to expire by the end of the week without congressional action. You can watch the senate live on cspan2. Coming next, Robert Mcdonald testifies before the house of Veterans Affairs Committee Full top been question and answer with robert gordon. At 7 00, washington journal is live with this mornings headlines. Robert mcdonald warned that a 2. 5 billion budget shortfall may lead to hospital closures and employee furloughs. He testified as to why there was a budget problem and the possible ways to address it. This is just under three hours. Welcome to this hearing and i appreciate your attendance. We are gathered to discuss vas budget execution for this fiscal year. As the own now, the stakes have been raised considerably since the deputy secretaries testimony on june 5. Deputy secretary was asked this question. If congress does not ask on the 2015 budg
Sunshine state. When you factor in this high tide. This could be rain in some locations. Forecasters calling if for potential storm surge for 11 note with wind gusts surpassing 100 miles an hour in some places bringing downpour lines and trees. Like a big boom seeing it come down. The death toll in haiti climbing. The ministry saying 300 people were killed. Many areas not accessible. Local officials suggest that meanwhile in florida at least three hurricanerelated deaths with the warning, the life threatening impacts from this storm still may not be over. I just want to emphasize to everybody that this is still a really dangerous hurricane. That danger now shifting toward gas tkpwa and the carolinas. The officials there are people especially in coastal areas are to evacuate georgia and carolinas. People especially in the coastal areas, to evacuate. We are trying to limit the harm done as much as we can. Reporter here all that is left of matthew is light wind, a little bit of rain along
Are back open. This after the serious craft. Traffic was backed up for hours. Right now, all lanes are back open. Lets step outside. Reporter there are some clouds streaming in from the west. But it is really warm. Take a look. The wet weather is hitting the Pacific Northwest. These are th of it. This is a live view from the airport. The camera at dia. It is very dry but warming up nicely. Temperatures in the 60s70. In the next few hours we will get to highs in the 80s. The cloud cover will clear up by Late Afternoon early evening. We will be under partly cloudy skies tonight. 66 it will be a nice night tonight. We will be in the 50s to early tomorrow morning. Denver to date 83 today 83 degrees. Upper 70s in the foothills. Coming up in a few minutes we will take a look at the weekend. Two men are in jail after leaving police through a chase in adams county. They tried to pull them over la near 62nd but the driver took off. Someone inside was throwing things from the window during the c