Department of Veterans Affairs. Robert Alan Mcdonald of ohio to be secretary. The presiding officer under the previous order, the time until 12 30 will be equally divided in the usual form. Mr. Sanders madam president . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Sanders as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, i rise today in strong support of the nomination of Robert Mcdonald to serve as secretary of the Veterans Affairs administration. Madam president , i also want to thank majority leader reid for moving this important nomination forward as quickly as it has, and i hope very much that later this afternoon, with a very strong vote, the u. S. Senate will vote to confirm Robert Mcdonald as secretary of the v. A. Madam president , before i talk about mr. Mcmcdonalds qualifications, i did want to take a moment to express my sincere thanks to generic shinseki for his dedicated service to our nation, first as a soldier and then as head of the v. A. , working ti
Or satisfying its purported rights in a way its safe and monitored. Thats a very important shift, and one of the things that iran has tried to do in addition to its effort to undermine the credibility of the iaea is to show that it stood up to the u. N. Security council, whose legitimacy is also impugned. And so that in itself, that kind of change in dynamic, is an important change in itself. When it comes to the particulars, i think we made that vital concession on iran iran has been seeking this since 2003. We conceded any restraints iran is under will be temporary in nature and quite short in nature and iran will be treated like nye state at the end of this process, despite, again, those obligations. We have granted some implicit legitimate si to those facilities which, remember, constructed in secret and in violation of the now will remain in place and not be dismantled. We have not forced iran to address the weaponnization question or the Ballistic Missile question. So all of thes
Also. So i think we i dont think its an either or situation. The first point that you were making, frank, is exactly what this legislation is talking about. And, actually, i live in north in a lot of and a lot of my neighbors go to the v. A. Hospital in memphis, tennessee. So thank you. A recurring theme were hearing compliments about the service theyre getting. But this legislation provides more doctors, more nurses and more facilities to address just what youre talking about. Host and the last caller in this segment is tony from north providence, rhode island, on our line for independents. Tony, weve got about a minute here. Caller good morning, how are you . Host good. Caller thank you for cspan. Took me about six months to get through. Ive got a claim in with the, an injury that i got during my service time. And ive been going through heck with them. I finally got a meeting with a judge. I told the judge exactly what was going on, how they were treating me and i had to keep telling
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