Is so key, i would like you in your very eloquent way explain to us why certainty is so critical. And if you didnt have the certainty of this federal bill, how it could impact you back home. Again, i know its repetitious, but its important. Thats the message i would like to see go out of this hearing. Again, let me say, i think certainty is the most important thing that we have to deal with. And over the last five or six years, we have not had that certainty obviously. And so we need it to plan. I mean if we dont have we need five six, ten years whatever the number of years that you decide, we just need to know what those are and we need to plan accordingly. And, this program that i have put in place and was able to actually put in place without legislation because the people of alabama had allowed us to borrow the garvey bonds. So were using future federal dollars. And so the certainty is so important for me because i signed a billion dollars in bonds and i want to make sure we pay it
Coordination, would result in a savings every year. If there were to be gentlemen pooling of the policies we could be talking about tone billion euros 10 billion euros. This kind of work, brought together from the different committees, sometimes from legislative proposals, sometimes from general areas where there could be a better allocation of resourceses of could translate these figures into one coherent whole. Highlights a debate that has been going on in the think tank and intellectual community of the Member States of the benefits of eu spending and the potential efficiency gains from a better allocation of resources. The Bertelsmann Foundation has done quite a bit of work in this. They recently published a new paper called 20 years of Single Market where they attempt to calculate the precise benefit to individual eu Member States of the Single Market between 1992 and 2012. They did a piece of work about a year ago where they took the three policies, and they tried to analyze what
He does that hoping that House Republicans will come to their senses and pass a piece of legislation that will be more impactful in terms of solving those problems and will supersede any action he might take. The president is as determined as ever to take that action on its own because House Republicans have locked congresshe ability of to come up with a solution. We know the president was talking about a strategy for isis in syria. Having said that, would he like to have that back . The president was talking about military options for countering isis in syria. There are a number of things we have already done as it relates to the broader situation in syria to confront some of the challenges there. The United States is the largest single donor of humanitarian aid to syria in terms of dealing with the terrible situation that has been caused by the violence in syria. We have seen millions of people who have been displaced by the violence there. The United States has been engaged in an ef
They fail to identify shortfalls in resources and take action to obtain the Additional Resources they have needed. And they fail to set the standards for honesty and integrity and quash the culture of self protection and retaliation. As you would expect, weve made a number of leadership changes in the field and at the Central Office. To help address our immediate concerns, we brought in former v. A. Undersecretary for health, dr. Jonathan perlin, for a short tour duty as senior advisor. And we brought in v. A. General counsel lee bradley to help sort through v. A. s responsibility in taking action against those accused of god wrongdoing or managerial negligence. Since may 1, 2014, we have taken over 30 personnel actions, and investigations are ongoing. Two members of the Senior Executive service have resigned or retired. Three members of the Senior Executive service have been placed on administrative leave pending the results of investigations. Over two dozen Health Care Professionals
Next, remarks by former president jimmy carter. Discussion on terror threats to the u. S. Assesses the state of iran under rouhani. On the next washington journal, Washington Examiner kleintary editor philip discusses president obamas foreign and domestic policy challenges and previews the upcoming midterm congressional elections. Adam green, cofounder of the compressive Chain Committee outlines the political and legislative agenda of progressive groups for the 2014 elections. Senior staff writer Gordon Lubold talks about the threat with isis. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Journal, live at 7 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Former president jimmy carter gave a keynote speech on the first day of the Islamic Society of north americas annual convention in detroit. He talked about the work the Carter Center is doing, including the involvement in the middle east peace process. He received criticism for greeting to speak at this forum. This is abou