[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person at those appearing distantly. We look forward to the testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the thirdparty administrators are in administering the mission act. Also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation as well. Almost every member of our committee though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us almost every member of the committee will be participating. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title i under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs, relating to the Veterans Community care program and the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers. Io i scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While v. A. Officials were invited to part
Book team of rivals was the inspiration for Stephen Spielbergs lincoln in 2012. Doctor goodwin earned her phd at harvard. So coming up, were going to re air her in death appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took phone calls. Will also be showing you discussions from her books, leadership in turbulent times. In holy pulpit. So well start with a january 1st, 1995 the parents on cspan series footnotes. In this hourlong interview, she discussed franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in the home front during world war ii. Her book, no ordinary time, won the Pulitzer Prize for history. Now here is historian doris goodwin. Author no ordinary time. If you could ask either Franklin Roosevelt or Eleanor Roosevelt a couple of questions after all of the work that is done. What would you be. I think it would like to understand why she was unable a certain moment in the middle of the war when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, and i
Will tell margaret or you have to go to your people and you have to tell them that it is in their interest that we will still have an internal market in one or 2 years time that the whole european edifice it wont be come crashing down through a huge economic crisis because then it will pull the netherlands down with it and its this short term thinking in some countries where the Prime Ministers are seem to be afraid to sort of go out with this message and say folks we cant just look at the moment we have to look to the new year next year the year after that and into the next 5 years and if we want to maintain our own wealth we have to sort of give something at the moment and so far that message doesnt really have to see being well received we heard from one dutch diplomat earlier in the day that they said positions are far apart and they no consensus can is to be had on the spaces so she will really have to move hearts and minds at this is really being seen as a turning point for the E
Struggle of the days of monsoon rains. If we are unite on the insight no body will divide us from the outside germany is a sort of underlying makes a case for why she should lead the European Union. For democratic congresswoman of accuse the us president of hate filled bullying for an attack many are labeling racist the house of representatives is preparing a vote condemning his tweets saying the women all u. S. Citizens and 3 born in america were from broken countries should go home the trump has kept up the controversy claiming many people agree with him. As we all know the recent tweets and words from the president are simply a continuation of his racist and xenophobic playbook we cannot allow these hateful actions by the president to distract us from the critical work to hold this Administration Accountable to the inhumane conditions at the border that is separating children from their loved ones and caging them up and the legal horrific conditions this country was founded on the r
Celebrating its sesquicentennial, 150 years, founded in 1867, a university that originally started with nine students in the basement of the sharp street Methodist Episcopal Church, now celebrating 150 years and has nearly 8000 students. It is a history and a legacy that is tied to historically black colleges and universities. In 2017, there are nine historically black colleges and universities that will celebrate their 150th anniversary, and these are Morgan State University in baltimore maryland, Howard University in d. C. , johnson c. Smith in north carolina, barber scotia in north carolina, talladega alabama, Saint Augustine in north carolina, alabama State University in alabama, fayetteville State University in north carolina, and Morehouse College in georgia. In 1867, these nine historically black colleges and universities formed the largest concentration of any historically black college and university established in any single year. 1965, the Higher Education act of 1965 formal