House that is doing all that we can to ensure that our veterans get timely care and the best care that we can provide them. This is cynical and its shameful and i believe, i believe that the American People can see straight through it. So i hope again, madam chair, that the president will reconsider this position. Because there is no place, no place here in this bill for political gamesmanship when it comes to our military families and our veterans. Thank you. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. At this time i yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. Lee, a member of the subcommittee on military construction and Veterans Affairs. The chair the gentlelady from california is recognized for three minutes. Ms. Lee thank you very much, madam chairman. Let me thank the Ranking Member for yielding, for his unwavering leadership for our veterans on this committee and for your friendship. Thank you very m
Our cemeteries will be open for our normal hours, which is sunrise to sunset. You may see some of our maintenance standards go of it because we wont be able to maintain the high standards we would like to have, but thats all retrieval once we have a budget. But focus here is on taking their families on the most painful day for them and making sure they feel that their veteran is respected and has been accorded dignified burial. Thank you, mr. Secretary. I appreciate that assurance, and your current work to make sure thats available for our veterans eric and, obviously, their as well. Youve seen the images of other federal places and locations that have been barricaded to our veterans. But i want to make certain we keep the cemeteries open, and appreciate your work doing that. I yield back my time. I think it does go without saying that we all care about the veterans of this country. And what we do have is a failure to communicate, negotiate, and there has been a breakdown in the instit
Very necessary in that process. We have stopped paying the private attorneys since september for their service. We have cut their hourly rates 15 for the present. And with that, the volunteer services of those attorneys and their willingness to take the cases we would be in a terrible pitch. Weve done that to protect the public defenders that we are not able to protect them as we should. And we may be in the process of taking good attorneys out of the appointment last and even putting more pressure for representation. Some victims lives may be in jeopardy without services. I absolutely agree with you that it is a matter of lifeanddeath particularly with the suicide of the victims after Sexual Assault is catastrophic. So we are not fooling around here. We owe this to the dictum of trauma. We need to get this done. I think the witness is very much in the testimony. Thank you. Sheila jackson lee. I am pleased to recognize a distinguished member of the committee from memphis tennessee firs
Im happy to do that. I know we are still a very fluid situation, but we reached out and asked we were talking about pts and whether they could get health provided their City Employees of the Indian Health service would provide direct Health Service to travel citizens and would largely be unaffected by the shutdown and that they would continue to provide correct Clinical Health Care Services as well as referrals for Contract Services that cannot be provided through their clinic. So, again, we just are somewhat confused as to the comment that was made in regard to posttraumatic stress, which i think everybody on the committee is very concerned with pity and i get a. Your statement that you can hear it today paints the worst possible picture thats out there. But in your statement it does not talk about the hundreds of thousands of employees that are still working in the health care that is provided so we just want to be honest with the questions and comments are provided. Im not saying th
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