But what could be more pressing than to make sure our veterans receive the care that they need and deserve . Thank you, mr. Chairman. Other members will be filtering back. But i would like to hear from the acting secretary now. And customarily, we give five minutes, but youll have more time. This is a serious discussion, and we want you to have the time you need to make your case, and we want the members here to have the time they need to ask you the questions. All right, senator burr suggested maybe we should wait a few minutes to make sure all the members come back. Lets take a very quick recess here. Okay. Lets reconvene, and senator, i think were up to you and your Opening Statement. Thank you, senator chairman sanders and Ranking Member burr for convening another very important hearing to address the issues at the v. A. Its critical that we continue to have these oversight hearings to do everything we can to hold v. A. s feet to the fire and make sure that accountability is there.
Sponsors. Second to our incredible speakers and moderators. Third the entire team especially rachel hof and Ryan Richardson our external affairs team. Incredible work they did to make today as seamless and credible experience as it has been. I thank you all for coming and appreciate you. Have a good evening. The house and senate are in session today. The Senate Working on several judicial and executive nominations. The house debating and set to vote on a couple of tax related measures today. Earlier today on the house floor, texas democratal green responded to media comments by morning joe host questioning this weeks Congressional Black Caucus speeches on the ferguson grand jury decision where members held up their hands while on the house floor. Here is congressman greens remarks from earlier. I rise today to say thank you to the many persons who serve in Law Enforcement. They have difficult jobs and they do their jobs well. I salute them. I also salute those who have been engaged in
Extraordinarily important. As far as a bullet goes, more for the record, i know five cdc people arrive and this is different. This is unprecedented and we have a lot of infectious bass diseases. Doctor ben from washington dc, hes help to cure over 5000 kids in uganda and i have introduced a bill and we have asked you repeatedly look into it. We are talking about getting this involved and this is a situation of kids who are dying horrible deaths and i have seen the kids and i have met the children and i had one of the neurosurgeons testify from africa. And that is part of the vision to grow the capacity of the resurgence in africa. I just want to thank you and i want to thank you for your leadership on all of these Global Health issues. We have set a tone for American Leadership at this point tremendous results. The thank you goes to you for these results. On may 22 we will have part of this policy and we a have been designed to take the thousand days approach targeting pregnant women i
Realize in the short term deal with the crisis that families are having, rebuild our economy. The budget we will have come to the floor proposed by mr. Ryan will take us in the wrong direction. With that, thank you, mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the time of the gentleman has expired. Pursuant to clause 12a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until n prom and First Lady Michelle Obama are attending a Memorial Service in texas this afternoon for the victims of last weeks shooting at Fort Hood Army base that killed four people, including the gunman and wounded 16 others. President obama among those delivering remarks this afternoon. That will be live on cspan3 as well beginning at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Lawmakers yesterday questioned the head of the u. S. Agency for International Development about the organizations funding of a social media platform in cuba, reportedly designed to stir political unrest, while administeror down played the report saying the p
Temperatures continue to fall and at or below freezing west of the city. 30 in frederick, 39 in annapolis. Through the rest of the overnight, temperatures are falling to around 30, clear and crisp. A new storm is on the boards, on the map. Well continue to watch for that coastal system developing. Were already seeing unsettled weather off florida and making the move up the coast and a new system from the tennessee valley. Tune in to good morning maryland to get the latest on the storms track. New information tonight on the shooting of a Police Trainee this week at the Rosewood Center. Reporter Maryland State Police released this letter outlining their role in the investigation and learning more about the Police Instructor who fired a live round striking a trainee in the head. Maryland state Police Investigators continue to interview officers who were at the Rosewood Center tuesday afternoon when a Police Trainee from the university of maryland baltimore campus was shot in the forehead.