Questions on the backgrounds and priorities. Many members i asked about military training, readiness, Technology Implementation as well as the state of military bases and specific projects in their home states. This is two hours and 20 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i guess we are one minute late. The Committee Meets today to consider the nomination of mrs. Barbara barrett to be secretary of the air force, and mr. Ryan mccarthy to be secretary of the army. Thanks for being here today. We have the standard questions, whether you like about your to answer. Would you answer audibly so it can be heard . And appreciate it very much. Do you adhere to the applicable laws and resolutions governing topics of interest . Yes. Yes. Will y
There would be no reason to stint those lesions. Thank you. Doctor mitchell, since you blew the whistle at the va scandal, has anything changed in phoenix in your view . Now patients are being scheduled or being referred to choice. The problem is that there is a delay in the community of getting choice apartmentst appointments scheduled. Retaliation is alive and well and i have many friends within the phoenix va scared to speak up, and they call me and i reported them and i try to assist them so they can address them without suffering re retaliation retaliation. Thank you. Dr. Knee, if somebody is Walking Around with 11 stints in their heart, what is likely to happen . Well, i mean, again its difficult. Its based on every patient and it would depend on why stints were placed there in the first place, and some have multiple stints and would require bypass surgery. They need to make sure that the patients are informed if they receive something they should not have because you can be on m
Helpful if you did not use that term much because it is an illusion. Ill have my question. The snap back is more focused on the United States than it is iran. As you know, mr. Secretary those of us who are involved in the bush administration, getting countries to economically isolate iran, we used a lot of leverage with countries saying you are either going to be in their market or hours. And that was effective. But he goes to this idea, if there is some kind of snap back, that was a slog. That wasnt a snap. It took used to get countries to divest out of the iranian economy. It will take years to do it again. But let me ask a hypothetical. It was a question in the closed hearing. A number of senators were not satisfied. This focus is a little bit on what senator ayotte said. Lets assume sanctions are lifted. We get the 60 billion the iranians are looking for 120 billion additional investments. No violations in the agreement. The economy is humming along. There is an act of terrorism. B
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The birds. It can be. It might be a combination. I think dr. Swain can give you mr. Peterson you have a hundred percent positive on the chickens . A vexing that tested 100 . Of vaccine that tested 100 . That virus as reported by the secretary, in chickens, we can prevent mortality in chickens. It is being done in turkeys. Mr. Peterson next week . Dr. Swayne the data will be available. The other issue, not just an experimental setting does it protect the birds in the laboratory. We have to take the vaccines and say, how can you use them in the field . There are different ages and types of words. The other part, we call this effectiveness. How can you use vaccines in combination in the field . The experience we have in countries like vietnam indonesia, china, to have an Effective Program in the field, you have to have a minimum of two vaccinations separated by three weeks. That makes it a little more different ledges tickly. If you have birds on the ground a longer than six months, you h