You at this point. Mr. Kaufman. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, thank you for your service in the United States army. Although the president id like to think the president chose you in recognition. In proctor and gamble. And we had in this committee, my predecessor on the over sight subcommittee had requested a study of Major Construction products and that was done and published in april of 2013. At that time, it said there were four ongoing projects one in las vegas orlando, new orleans aurora colorado listed as denver. That the average 366 Million Dollars over budget. And that they were each on average about three years behind schedule. We clearly knew there was a big problem. If you and proctor and gamble were to step in and you had an apartment that was that dysfunctional, you would have fired the management team. Straightened it out, spotted off when i look at the v. A. , your core competency is benefits to veterans, health care being a significant part of that. Constructi
Budgets. We had employees willing to give up compensation to meet this need of veterans in the community. Maybe some bonuses too. Miss walorski. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary good to see you. Thanks for being here today. The problem that i dont understand with this, this is what i dont get, is that it seems like it keeps coming back to this issue of perception. You know you come today and you have your stats and your tables and your graphs and thoed kind of things and we over here, we want Solutions Just as badly as everybody else because were fighting for veterans in our district and fighting in a bipartisan matter and doing everything we can do legally through a legislative process but what weve been up to since you been here last is multiple hearings that go on every other day and look at the whistleblower retaliation, and systematic failures in denver and waste and fraud and abuse and ive been involved and every time your i. T. Chief has been here and we talked about this
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
Budgets are not particularly sexy and exciting discussions, and a lot of people wonder about 1 trillion here and 100 billion there, what what does it all mean we believe this event and go live now to a conversation about whats next for Health Care Policy after several republicans against repeal and replace the law. This is hosted by axios. Thank you all for coming out so early. Thanks all of you for joining us online and thank cspan for welcoming their audience here to axios. We want to thank delta dental and jason don for sponsoring this event. Thank all of you for coming for those of you who are following online please use hashtag axios 360 and will get the conversation going online. Axios events are like all of the manifestations of axios. We bring information you can trust, information that will help you make better decisions using smart brevity sake get smarter faster. We see that also with these events where we are honored to have three senators at the center of this conversation
Course, maybe the best bit of the show. In fact, our political edhon the show. In fact, our Political Editor, Christopher Hope, will be live as he works his way around the official post debate spin room. Patrick is live now with our audience in the other studio behind me. Patrick, studio behind me. Patrick, whats going on. 7 i heard, claims of my dad was a toolmaker protest from outside. Whats, whats going on. 7 yeah, well, there have been some protests outside. There was, the toolmaker comment. His dad now worked in a factory instead of actually made the tools. So there was that side of things. But yes, we are in the gb news watch room here. This has been, i think, the spiciest debate so far. Its actually been really quite entertaining, gambling and integrity came up, benefits has come up , borders integrity came up, benefits has come up, borders has come up. It got really quite tasty at quite a few times. So weve got some great clips to play you and this audience that you can see aro