The committee will come to order. Thank you all for being here to discuss the president s fiscal year 2019 budget submission for the department of Veterans Affairs. 198. 6get request holds billion, in increase of 12 billion over last year. That is a huge number. Even more striking when you compare the growth in the Veterans Affairs budget with the overall federal spending in the economy. This graphic will illustrate this since 2006, the v. A. Budget point. Is up 175 . Overall federal spending increased by 54 and gdp grew only 40 . Given the aggressive expansion appreciateources i the secretarys testimony. The Department Must stay focused on the core mission to ensure resources are properly utilized and veterans care prioritize. D. V. A. Will take action on many important items in some examples 2019. Include the implementation of the forever g. I. Bill and the undoubtedlyt will be a costly and a lengthy replacement of the v. A. s Electronic Health records. Because we cannot possibly cov
Year. Dr. Shulkin testified before the house and Veterans Affairs committee. A congressman, who called for the secretary to resign, spoke with reporters after the hearing. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the committee will come to order. Thank you all for being here to discuss the president s fiscal year 2019 budget submission for the department of Veterans Affairs. Holds 19. 8 6equest million billion. That is a huge number. It is even more striking when you compare the growth in the be a budget to the overall federal spending and the economy. It illustrates his point. Since 2006, the v. A. Budget is up 175 . Overall federal spending increased by 54 and gdp grew only 40 . Given the aggressive expansion of the a resources, i appreciate the secretarys testimony. The Department Must stay focused on the core mission to ensure res
Shared challenges and what has been developed in the face of fastpaced changes. So now, i want to turn to the hadnsland premier, who i the pleasure of meeting during my travels to australia. She will tell us about what is innovationenslands a, in what role you see the United States playing in that. Good morning. Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here with all of our counterparts and lovely to hear from our Prime Minister. We have a lot of opportunities to work cleverly together and share ideas. This is my fourth visit to the United States as premier, and every time i tried to visit a new state and a lot of the ideas i pick up i take back to queensland. We have a very diversified economy and we have a program called advanced queens land, which is a fund in which we are investing and business development, industry attraction , in scholarships, especially for women, to allow women to , and ivolved in research am also proud that in my cabinet we have 50 women as well. It is a world firs
All right, ladies and gentlemen. I want to now pivot the conversation to hear from our australian counterparts. Our commitment to working together beyond this dialogue is critical to the growth and development of our state economies. Increasingly, chrysler two countries, we are seeing hurdles and opportunities tove this Economic Growth created by new innovations. Today with my fellow governors in the estrella got chief minister is, we are hoping to learn from our peers on the different approaches to the shared challenges and what innovative policy ideas have been developed in the face of these fastpaced changes. So now, i want to turn to the queensland premier anna stage why had the pressure of meeting during my travels to australia. Well tell us about whats driving quinlans innovation economy and what role do you see the United States playing and not. Good morning. Good morning. Its a pleasure to be here with all of our counterparts and from our Prime Minister. I think we had a lot of
Gentlemen, i want to pivot the conversation to hear from our australian counterparts. Workingitment to together beyond this dialogue is critical to the growth and development of our state of economies. Increasingly, across our two countries, we have seen hurdles and opportunities to Economic Growth created by new innovation. Today with my fellow governors andthe australian premiers chief ministers, we are hoping to learn from our peers on different approaches to these shared challenges and what has been developed in the face of fastpaced changes. So now, i want to turn to the hadnsland premier, who i the pleasure of meeting during my travels to australia. She will tell us about what is innovationenslands a, in what role you see the United States playing in that. Good morning. Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here with all of our counterparts and lovely to hear from our Prime Minister. We have a lot of opportunities to work cleverly together and share ideas. This is my fourth visit