Again, there was still no mention of a Hospital Systemwide shutdown. And finally at the hearing on june 25th itself there was no mention of a Hospital System shutdown coming in august. Mr. Secretary, im disappointed about the slow, painstaking revelation of this crisis by the department thats led by you. I understand their excuses as to why we are in it this position, however, somebody somewhere took their eye off the ball. Just as congress established a cap on spending for the denver project that va busted, Congress Also provided a budget for va for fiscal year 2015 which the president signed into law and it, too, is now busted. In both instances va has Left Congress with very little time to react to a crisis created by vas own management decisions. While we will not penalize veterans for vas management, or transparency failures, the days when va can come to congress and just say cut us a check are gone. Asking for flexibility without supporting information is not enough. Similar to t
The senate was in session on sunday. They did authorize the export import bank. By now, current funding for transportation projects is set to expire by the end of the week without congressional action. You can watch the senate live on cspan2. Coming next, Robert Mcdonald testifies before the house of Veterans Affairs Committee Full top been question and answer with robert gordon. At 7 00, washington journal is live with this mornings headlines. Robert mcdonald warned that a 2. 5 billion budget shortfall may lead to hospital closures and employee furloughs. He testified as to why there was a budget problem and the possible ways to address it. This is just under three hours. Welcome to this hearing and i appreciate your attendance. We are gathered to discuss vas budget execution for this fiscal year. As the own now, the stakes have been raised considerably since the deputy secretaries testimony on june 5. Deputy secretary was asked this question. If congress does not ask on the 2015 budg
I talk to colleagues, friends and customers. Most of whom are ineligible. So we have a huge they have a great deal of trouble managing services for their parents, finding services for the parents, deciding about services for the parents and themselves. The largest share of the demographic is not eligible for anything. We need much Better Services between ccrcs and medicaid. There is a Huge Population that has a great deal of trouble. I want to encourage us to use the private sector or use encouragement to the private sector to better use private individual funds which is all we have for most people to improve Services Available to most agencies. Really to work at making it possible for people with just some money to age in place easily and well. I think it will make a difference hopefully in individual lives, neighborhoods, communities and all of our levels of government. Please join me in giving a hand to our wonderful colleagues. More now from this panel on the Housing Needs of senio
Colleague and bin laden . The level of violence, the him in thatuts category. I do think he shares that ideology, both in terms of the level of violence and, ultimately, grandiose aspirations he has set forth. So yes, i would put him in the same category. Isil has set itself on a path apart from the rest of al qaeda and in part based on their disagreement with the tactics. And the approach. Is more about means. With respect to ends, they share the same ideology. To emphasize that isil or isis or whatever you a to call is part of a broader transformation, lets call it al qaeda is him, in the last couple of years. In that context, how worried are ,ou that the old al qaeda core perhaps with new leaders coming in, is poised to view resurrected and research as the United States and nato, who draw forces from afghanistan and pakistan . Of seeing anger repeat of what has happened in iraq or al qaeda in iraq . We thought it was, if not destroy, at least on the back foot, resurrecting itself wi
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