I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right, thank you. I also wanted to take a moment and acknowledge its the time of year when we think about our p. O. W. And m. I. A. Veterans and i dont know if we have any former p. O. W. S were family members here in the audience . Do they want to stand . Thank you. We will keep them in our thoughts. I am glenn cortie. For those of you that know me i am glenn cortie director of the dayton ohio va and i was asked to come to phoenix to help out for four months. I arrived july 9 and at the end of my two or will be the sixth of november. I was honored to be ousting tom to help lead the organization as we continue to move forward here in phoenix. I wanted to also thank our veterans that came out tonight. This is an important way for us to receive feedback and hear good things that we are doing as well as things that we
There you see heavy rain accompanied with high wind. There you see Galloway Township and atlanta county going into burlington county. Mystic island briefly heavy rain and damaging winds near about 60 miles an hour. Thats another thing we can expect for our shore points. Winds near 60 miles an hour. This is damaging wind speed. Weve already seen a 71mileanhour wind gust at philly International Airport. So thats one thing well definitely keep you on top of us as we go through the rest of the afternoon. Lets head over to first alert meteorologist Brittney Shipp. Im adding up our peak wind gusts. 71 miles an hour at Philadelphia International airport. Lehigh peak wind gust of 55 miles an hour. 48 in northeast philadelphia at the airport there. 48 Miles Per Hour in new castle. If we show you what that looks like, if we map it out for you, all the reports of strong peak wind gusts, this is what it looks like. A lot of our counties seeing really strong wind gusts. This is turnersville with a
This system . I mean, i see a number of things, obviously Electronic Medical records didnt happen and ill have a follow up question for mr. Mini and other items in that vein. Did the va ever contact you after this or after your testimony and say, hey, this is where we failed . This is the doctor. This is where the system failed for you . No. No one no one ever from that i can recall explained to me where the failure occurred or held themselves accountable or provided an apology. Ive stuck with the va, and ive had great medical care and met and became friends with a lot of medical professionals within the va, but the system clearly, clearly failed in my case. And no one ever has explained to me what happened. Do you still travel 2 1 2 hours to the Va Care Center for your current va care or you found one closer that they would let you or did you move . Can you describe that more . I come from a rural district. Plenty of veterans have to drive 100, 200, 300 miles one way for care often th
Most benefit from the program, and says the va welcomes the opportunity to work with this committee to craft appropriate language so those who are not Service Connected can have access to those rehab treatment facilities. One thing ive ran into with several of the members, speaking with them, is the word, the pay for a or the pay go. Well, va travel budget continues to increase every year. And they ask, where are we going to get this 3 million . Well, in 2013, the va collected 2. 931 bill through the medical care collection fund. Theres money they collected. And i sat last night listening to last nights hearing. 1. 1 billion returned two years ago 1, billion last night, and half billion returned just this year. If theres that much money that can be turned back in from the va to congress, well, theres our 3 million to send these nonService Connected veterans to send them to the rehab they dearly deserve. So there is no pay for or pay go. The money is there. It was clearly stated last ni
Good morning, everybody at home, im martha maccallum. Sasse won with 49 of the total vote. He beat out other candidates one who was backed by Senate Minority leader mitch mcconnell. Bill in virginia Shelley Moore capito held off her tea party challenger. Analyze it, how much does this say in nebraska about the tea party and that movement . There is this kind of obsession, is the tea party dead, is it alive . Like were talking about abe vigoda or something. What this shows candidates really matter. Ben sasse is a really impressive candidate. By all means do the Tea Party Groups get to claim a victory here. Mcconnell crowd, establishment crowd tried to torpedo his candidacy. At this same time this guy worked for george bush. He has pretty impressive record. He is not just a firebrand populist. He is serious, great candidate and that is probably why he won. Bill he talked about big, bold, conservative ideas during his campaign. Yesterday he said he would support mitch mcconnell. Now, i do