First person to give all of us your cell phone number so i hope this is not a situation where it is be careful what you ask for. I mean it. We appreciate it. Senator brown brought up the question of the significant events of that occurred to our enlisted people, our soldiers that never get into the records as i have heard of veterans as they are trying to make their claims, they are not able to get the information to back up those claims. It leads me to ask you when general gates and secretary shinseki were leading the dod and the v. A. Respectively, they talked about seamless records so that the records follow the person, the individual. Here we are. We still do not have the compatible systems. Is this something you would pursue so that when our people leave active service and become veterans as their records are with them, it follows them. Apparently this require some kind of a huge computer change now we have not been able to achieve even if a lot of money has been spent. Would you
Admitted v. A. Needed an dditional 975 million for 2005 and 2 billion more for 2006. Even when v. A. Accurately indicates its needs, omb passed back a lower number in the final budget. Thats why dav and our partners have testified over the past decade that v. A. s medical care and construction budgets were inadequate. In the prior 10 years the funding provided for medical care was more than 7. 8 billion less than what they recommended. For next year we project it will be 2 billion less than needed. Heres what the Congressional Budget Office said in a recent report. And current law for 2015 cbos base line projections for 2016 v. A. s appropriations for health care are not projected to keep pace with growth in the Patient Population or growth in per capita spending for health care. Meaning that waiting times will tend to increase. In addition, over the 10 years of funding appropriated for construction has been about 9 billion less than what was needed. And thats based on v. A. s own inte
It is always great to be back discussing ideas. I want to thank the cnn Investigative Team who stayed on the scandals until they broke through and became a national crisis. Early on the stories were dismissed as isolated small problems. The teams continued effort grew the facts until they had to be dealt with. Our thinking on the future of the Veterans Administration has been deeply influenced by the hard work of chairman jeff miller and there find many staffs. We are further down the road because of their help. They have worked tirelessly and against a lot of opposition to help americans veterans find a better future. I want to thank our chief researcher on the v. A. And who developed the interactive map you will see. I want to thank Ross Worthington for helping think through these proposals. Let me say this is going to be a bold by washington standards radical speech. Im going to use terms that are not common in washington circles. Let me share a few of these new ideas ahead of time.
State to want to leave their union but do not know that they can, or when and how to do so, how many hundreds of thousands, or even millions of Union Members around the country want to do the same thing . Working with the association of tmerican educators we called i National Employee freedom week. That is this week. I am pleased to say that 81 organizations, which we have have to, in 45 states, come together with the sole purpose of letting people know that they have the ability to leave their union. You will hear from rebecca, robert, and jennifer and they stories aboutr trying to leave their unions. I want to tell you about the numbers that their stories represent. We decided to conduct a poll, a National Poll of Union Members asking if you could out out of your union without any penalty, would you do so . 454 Union Members across the country and over 28 said yes, i want to opt out of my union if i could do so without penalty. 14. 5 Union Members, so that is about 4 Million People w
MANGILAO (University of Guam) — Ethics training for all government of Guam employees is now available on a weekly basis. The trainings are being offered under the Guam Ethics Commission