We have taken a two track approach. One track is to put in fixes to our Current System knowing that is not the solution. My first trip to phoenix, i sat down at the computer screen and worked the scheduling system myself. It really is a green screen. Like we have to make things simpler for veterans, we have to make things simpler for our employees. Putting fixes into the system is the fastest approach. We are going for an off the shelf system you are going to implement as quickly as possible. We are going to start putting this in place. It will take some time to do it. The third thing we have to do is make sure our people are trained. This is why i am eager to have a simplified system. While there have been things that have gone wrong and we are Holding People accountable for those things, for example, there was a person who manipulated data in georgia who was indicted two weeks ago. As times goes on, these measures of accountability will come out. I believe we have to make things simp
Everything reminds me of Something Back home. It is an antique cranberry rake and reminds me of the Farming Community about 800 family farms in my district. I have paintings of boating and seascapes and a lot of military things. One of the largest basis is in my district. That is howrake and they picked cranberries. Macarthur, Third District of new jersey. A pleasure to speak with you. Rep. Macarthur thank you. Newsmakers, Ranking Member of the energy and Commerce Committee talks about president obamas Climate Change a u. S. Energy development. Newsmakers on cspan. Chris sunday night, former emergency manager at detroit kevyn orr talks to buy job overseeing the largest municipal bankruptcy in u. S. History. That detroit had taken 1. 5 billion when the stock market went down to 6700, and invested in an index fund, dow jones, standard and poor, market is trading at 18,000. Not only would have tripled their money but could have paid the pensions in full and gotten back of the clearing 13t
Maybe i am too old for that. He is an active skateboarder and that is one of his great passions. Host we saw the photographs of u. S. Some of the new jersey cranberry rake and an instrument that looks very old. Rep. Macarthur everything reminds me of Something Back home. It is an antique cranberry rake and reminds me of the Farming Community about 800 family farms in my district. I have paintings of boating and seascapes and a lot of military things. One of the largest bases is in my district. Back to the rake and that is how they picked cranberries. Today it is mechanized. Host tom macarthur, Third District of new jersey. A pleasure to speak with you. Rep. Macarthur thank you. This week on newsmakers, new jersey congressman Ranking Member of the energy and commerce committee. He talks about president obamas Climate Change plan and the future of u. S. Energy. Newsmakers, sunday at 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on seas am. On cspan. Sunday night on cue and a, former emergency manag
That will bring the hazy and smoky conditions once again through the bay area. And we have smoke heading south with the northerly wind. Wind speeds now. No strong winds and tracking the direction of the wind and coming in from the north and heading south. You can see we will see windy conditions. For the afternoon and parts of the bay. This comes from the west which is a stronger sea breeze and bringing down the temperatures. And big story aside from the haze and the patchy smoke will be the temperatures. This is hazy here at the Golden Gate Bridge on the sunday morning from the north and waking up to hazy and smoky conditions. For the east bay, waking up to haze and partly cloudy skies and this is a nice sunrise this morning. Day planner looks like this. You thought today was hot. Look at today. In the 60s. If you want to be outside. This is the time to to it, we will be ins 70s by 10 and low 90s at 2 00 p. M. High today of 94. And 4 00 p. M. And we will stay fairly hot. Low 90s at 6
[applause] so i would like to start with governor kaine and congressman hamilton with a question, when you were working on the commission as we were working on it did you expect the fight against terrorism would be and here we are 16 years later. Good morning lee. Good morning tom and chris. Delighted to be with you. Go ahead, tom. Is great to have you. Most of you dont know its a very modest man and held a staff together and helped get that report. Thank you chris very much. I think that we thought there would still be a terrorist threat. We were smart enough to predict how it would happen, the extent of it, geographically ideologically or anything else. I think we thought it would and i might say before we started any program we paid tribute to the families. The families of 9 11 have been the most Extraordinary Group and they have taken the greatest tragedies in anybodys life and turned it someways into triumph and into progress and works to help other families, the people every sing