Screeria nigeria. Rs staffing and then the white house news briefing and then recent Data Security breaches at banks and retailers. A hearing today looked at staffing shortages at Veterans Affairs hospitals. Witnesses representing va doctors and nurses talked about the need for more medical professionals. This house Veterans Affairs subcommittee hearing is two hours. This subcommittee will come to order. Before we begin, i would like to ask for unanimous consent for my friend and colleague from pennsylvania to sit in on todays hearings. Without objection, so ordered. Thank you for joining us today for todays subcommittee hearing, overcoming barriers to more efficient and effective va staffing. As a physician who worked at fee for service at the iran mountain Va Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center for about 20 years i know how privileged it can be to care for veterans on a daily basis. Regardless of how fulfilling va employment often is, the departments ability to effectively
In, i believe, five in between 2005 and 2008 and that certainly assisted Border Patrol in expeditiously constructioning hundreds of miles of fence along the southwest border. There were legal challenges brought to halt certain border projects. But when dhs would show Waiver Authority, the courts would dismiss those challenges. I will note it is not absolute. Besides the constitutional limitations, you cannot waive the constitution. Another thing is that it refers specifically to the construction of barriers and roads. There is certainly some question as to whether it would apply to tactical infrastructure that is not a barrier or a road. Like sensors or cameras. Dhs when it has exercised Waiver Authority to border projects, it has often mentioned things like radio towers and cameras in addition to the fence. But whether Waiver Authority could be used exclusively for a say, a project to install towers or sensors along a particular stretch of the border dhs has never done that and that w
Aye member chan. Aye chair ronen. Aye. That passes unanimously. Thank you so much. Mr. Clerk read item 2 item 2 is a resolution approving a contract agreement between tonnon incorporated and department of Public Health for reports and reimbursement. And Revenue Service in the amount not to exceed 8. 5 million for a term of october first of 22 through september 30 of 27. And authorize the d. Public health it enter in amendments or modifications to the contract prior to the execution. And are necessary to the propers of the contract or this resolution. Member when ares upon joining remote low call 4156550001, access code 2494 405 5872 then star 3 to enter the speaker line. The prompt will indicate you raised your hand. When you have unmuted begin comments. Thank you, take up this item the budget analyst or mr. Sir have anything to add to last week . If not i dont see questions. Can we open up for Public Comment y. Member when is wish to speak in person line you know now. For those remote
Word. Whoologize for those folks wrote good questions on cards but we didnt have time to get to. But i would ask one final time for you to fill out the blue evaluation forms if you havent already. I would also like to thank eric colleagues to thank our helping to ar great extent shape this program and put it together with an excellent panel. And i would like you to help me think that panel for what i bet is not the last time we address this question. It is certainly one of the most and lighting discussions we had on exchanges. Inc. You. Thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] if you missed any of this exchange, you can find the video in our library at cspan. Org. Sending hisama is president obama is signing the Student Lending bill. The president this afternoon will be holding a News Conference beginning at 3 p. M. Eastern. A number of topics to be addressed come including u. S. Russia relati
To the point he made, if he is 100 correct and not much of the variance is explained by its, i will note that current policy already attempts to make these kinds of distinctions by transferring more medicaid coverage to people who are medically needy, for example. Problems ints of the way we defined who is sick and who is medically needy. Is this problem with how do you i do who is sick . That is not a problem that is unique to our plan. It is unique to any kind of legislation that tries to assist the sick. I do not think there are any particularly bulletproof ways of doing that today. I will hand it off to your you if you want to add to that to you if you want to add to that. This is not like car insurance. If you cannot afford car insurance, you do not get to have a car. With Health Insurance, there is that social social insurance component which is the degree to which the healthy pay to subsidize the cost which is something we cannot really have an explicit conversation around, so w