Hours. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony from the Government Accountability office that serves the secretary, the Service Chiefs on the current condition of privatized military housing. Almost a year ago, i first heard from military families about the abysmal conditions they faced, and frankly, a confession is good for the, soul of this was janet driver who called this to my attention from Tinker Air Force base and i thought this was something that was unique to Tinker Air Force base but its also in oklahoma and its also all the way around the country. And so that was the background of how this all started. Weve come to learn that its it is a problem nationwide. Its a National Crisis of proportions we havent seen since the scandal at walter reed about a decade ago. Members of this committee, our staff and myself, weve all traveled and seen these problems firsthand. This is the third hearing this committee has had on this issue and im sure its not going to be the last. We h
This hearing will come to order. Good morning. Next week americans will honor our nations veterans who have paid the price for our freedom in times of conflict and served as our shield in times of peace. Today, nearly 20 million americans have earned the title of veteran. Im proud to say that maine is home to more than 114,000 veterans. The second highest percentage in our entire country. We owe them such a great debt. The gratitude we express in words on veterans day can repay this debt only in small measure. A truly grateful nation must match its words with actions. As we will learn today, one issue that calls for our immediate action is to fight a newer enemy facing our veterans and that is those relentless con artists who seek to rob them of their life savings and defraud them of the benefits they have earned in service to our country. Often, veterans fall victim to the same scams that this committee has highlighted in recent years such as the irs imposter scam, the grandparent sca
On protecting veterans targeted by scams and what congress can do to address the issue. This is about two hours. This hearing will come to order. Good morning. Next week, americans will honor our nations veterans who have paid the price for our freedom in times of conflict and served as our shield in times of peace. Today, nearly 20 million americans have earned the title of veteran. Im proud to say that maine is home to more than 114,000 veterans. The second highest percentage in our entire country. We owe them such a great debt. The gratitude we express in words on veterans day can repay this debt only in small measure. A truly grateful nation must match its words with actions. As we will learn today, one issue that calls for our immediate action is to fight a newer enemy facing our veterans and that is those relentless con artists who seek to rob them of their life savings and defraud them of the benefits they have earned in service to our country. Often, veterans fall victim to the
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Lots to talk about this morning, once again we follow the bouncing ball of the china story and overnight we are learning that both sides said they would be willing to roll back tariffs, interesting. Devil is in the details, this can be very good, imagine how much markets might soar if you, in fact, do get this first round deal with china, very good news for investors. Maria we have a rally underway right now, futures indicating doubledigit gain, on top of all 3 major averages closing in record territory yesterday over optimism in deal with china, u. S. And china, s p was up 11 and nasdaq up 46, washington and beijing considering rolling back tariffs of completing phase 1 of much larger agreement, President Trump spoke about that in rally last night, listen to this. China is doing poorly as you know, but they are paying billions and billions of dollars and theyve never given us 10 cents before, billions of dollars, they gave a lot of the money to our farmers who got targeted but no long