And this increase is a line with inflation to ensure that the level of funding will keep pace overtime. The reason i say these things is we stressed this morning the absolute criticality of a strong federal partnership, predictability of funding and significantly increased federal funding to help, to earn the tide to turn the tide on this. I want to make a clear we appreciate and respect at the local level we need to step up and do our part as well. So thats what you see on the part of our commonwealth. So what ill say is that things have certainly gotten much better but we, and were continuing but we are definitely in a great need of continued support by the federal government. On the side of, i want to take a little bit now, state of good repair, fix it first, commonsense must happen. But at the same time we cannot wind up only looking at the whole as i said, and that the donut. That means we also have to make new targeted investment for growth. For us the most notable of those proje
First, i thinkshould be clear that we believe the systems are safe. One of the safest mode of travel we have available to us in this day and age. Real also believe very strongly there are steps that need to be taken in order to address the safety, not just of the general public, but the employees who work for these diseases. There is no question that when youre dealing with an aging infrastructure and the needs that are required to maintain that infrastructure, employees will be working in Hazardous Conditions that can make for an unsafe situation, but there are steps that the Transit Agency has taken. I know from my own experience we focus closely on making sure that our operators have appropriate training, tools, protocols and place to map the safety of these employees. But the reality is, as long as it will take to fix this problem will require more workers to work environments where it could be a more dangerous situation that if it were invested in good repair. Well, thank you for
Meeting this morning to subpoena two sets of documents from the va that were longstanding requests from the committee, but yesterday va delivered information regarding the removal of six ses employees for the past two fiscal years. This request has been made by multiple members of this committee, including myself, and multiple hearings going back to february. This morning va delivered the second set of documents which i requested via letter in october of 2013. The documents cover the Performance Reviews for each ses individual for fiscal years 2011 and 2012. Although vas response to my request and your request was delayed, their production of the requested materials is sufficient and, therefore, after consultation with the Ranking Member, well no longer be having a business meeting this morning. So this mornings full hearing is entitled pea review of awarding bonuses to Senior Executives at the department of Veterans Affairs. This morning, were going to examine the outlandish bonus cul
That we can report to the treasury, got to do something. Were down to less than 1 in most cases for those journal voucher entries and its got to get lower than that. So. I understand that i understand the accounting part has to account for something. How is the Management Structure holding those individuals accountable that arent provides pretty basic information . One of the benefits of the audit is its raising the visibility to our commanders. I doubt they knew that these things existed. Some of them still dont. They will if they flunk the audit as bob speer said and my ol colleagues have said, this has become part of the readiness of the military. The vice chiefs are asking questions of their commanders. And if were having trouble with journal vouchers, theyll be asking questions of them. Do any of you want to add to this . Youre making my point. You should go ahead and audit. Were ready to go. Everything im seeing is were just talking about getting audit ready. Its a milestone on t
This is al jazeera ah, hello, im sorry, im noisy. Welcome to the news. Our lie from london coming up, 2 years of conflict, but now one step closer to a piece, ethiopia is warring sides agree to end hostilities. It talks in pretoria canyon deploy troops to the east and democratic republic of congo as fighting against m. 23 rebels intensifies great exports from ukraine of back on russia. Reverse this decision to block shipments via the black sea and the Federal Reserves. Latest move in the fight against inflation. The benchmark Interest Rate is height for the 6th time this year. And in sports at totland star san young men to have surgery could miss the wild cup with south korea while in the Champions League holders at round madrid, secured top spot and their grief office rushing celtic 51 ah lo and welcome to the program o p. Seal has now been agreed for the northern ethiopian region of tag ry, ending hostilities in a 2 year conflict thats killed thousands of people and displaced million