The way advanced appropriations work. I support that and the frustration i have here is the billion dollars we spent. Last year about this time chairman remembers this very well, where we couldnt have an integrated Electronic Health record where the va and dod we flushed a billion dollars and still cant make it work. Thats something that i think this is my sixth year here. I cannot understand in todays technology why a veteran Service Member cant lead and electronically transfer their record. It hasnt been explained to me. It is coming down. I salute the secretary on that. He has a real commitment to that. The two things that i really am passionate about are Homeless Veterans. I think its heartbreaking when you see a veteran sleeping under a bridge that honorably served this country. We had the hud vouchers and that has come down. I salute general shinseki for that. Thats one of our problems at home. Weve got to work on a place to house Homeless Veterans and people to go ahead and get
Request i want to thank you, mr. Chairman, for allowing me to ask that question in case i have to leave. Thank you. Senator heller. Thank you for your testimony and everybody thats here today. Its good to see you here. At 4 30 this afternoon i have the secretary coming into my office and im going to ask him a lot of questions. Im going to ask him obviously about the veterans backlog issue and progress if any are being made. The issue of lack of communication between my office and reno will be another question that im going to ask and hopefully get a good answer for. But there are other questions that you might think that i should ask him. Are there any questions, if you were talking to the secretary today, what question would that be, and im going to take notes and this is your chance to advocate. I wouldnt presume, sir, to tell you what to ask the secretary, although the secretary is an Airborne Ranger like me, so he is my friend. He has told me that he will reduce the backlog by 2015
Get a fully develop the claim . I would make just a general comment before i turn this over to my staff. We believe that the reduction of the backlog is a combination of a claim process and dbqs and then also accountability thats passed onto the review officers. We think those three things are exactly the types of answers to not only reduce the claims but to a manageable level but then reduce the backlog entirely. Let me if i can ask a followup question, i know they work hard to encourage veterans be served to file as complete a claim as possible, but i also recognize they need options to file any way they want. Whether that is on that forum or perhaps on paper. Is that accurate and can you explain why its important that veterans still have the option to file a claim any way they want . Ill defer that to the staff. Its important that veterans still have the opportunity to file a claim, paper on the standard or regular form. Currently they can take that regular piece of paper or as many
arnold schwarzenegger leaving his santa monica office tonight. on the day the world learned he has been keeping an embarassing secret from the public and his wife. good evening, everyone. california s former governor had a baby with a woman who worked for him and his family. it is a bombshell with enormous personal and political implications. lisa amin gulezian spoke with one of schwarzenegger s top aides. the former governor says he is sorry. sorry he hurt his wife and children and far fathering a child with a whom would walked into the shorts the schwarzenegger home for 20 years. little information is coming from the couple now that the world knows about schwarzenegger s affair and he fathered a baby more than a decade ago before becoming governor. shriver released this statement saying this is a painful and heartbreaking time. as a mother, my concern is for the children. i asked for compassion, respect and privacy as my children and i try to rebuild our lives and h
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