[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
Center of our democracy since the founding of this nation of were going to protect the integrity of the vote but i really believe with all my heart with the extraordinary margins mr president that youve inspired in the states that you just described in the way that you launched this Movement Across the country to make America Great again i truly do believe as you do that we are on the road to victory and we will make America Great again and again i want thank you America Great again and again i was thinking thank you. That was donald trump as saying we will win this in as far as i am concerned we have won this of course is not in his gift to declare victory but it was pretty much a victory speech he said cold events incredible phenomenal success he said he won states he did not expect to win saying that the democrats cannot catch us saying that it was still possible for them and that when he pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin as a crucial blue state said lets go to our White House Cor
We have been projecting that with 290 electoral votes joe biden has won the president ial election he is now the president elect of the United States pennsylvania is the state that put him over the top and he has now also been declared the winner. Youre watching live pictures now from new york we are seeing huge celebrations all across the country however there are a number of gatherings of Trump Supporters out there flags as well in a number of places in pennsylvania and in washington d. C. As well as you can see theyre out on the streets theyve been charging usa usa the other groups of supporters for joe biden have been celebrating his victory well his victory also means that Vice President elect comer harris will be the 1st woman 1st south asian and 1st black person to hold that office she learned all of that news while she was out jogging and was also one of the 1st to congratulate her wedding ring. Wait wait then a very very heavy the next president of the United States. Lets now
Georgia and multiple swing states counting was halted for hours d and hours on Election Night with the results withheld from major democrat run locations only to appear that later and they suddenly appeared and they all had the name biden and were just about all i think almost all they all had the name but none of which is a little strange i challenge joe and every democrat to clarify that they only want legal votes. Because they talk about votes and i think they should use the word legal eagle votes we want every legal vote counted and i want every legal vote counted we want openness and transparency no secret count rooms no mystery ballots no illegal votes being cast after election day you have election day and the laws are very strong and that you have an election day and they dont want votes cast after election day and they want the process to be an honest one its so important we want an honest election and we want an honest count and we want honest people working back there becaus
Walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and in the end we got on 30 ballots representing 73 of the voters, 381 electoral votes, you need 270 to win. And then you count the writein states were on and were 96 of the voters and 514 potential electorate votes out of a possible 538. That was july and august. Even more difficult barrier is getting in the National Media dialogue about the campaign. We get in on a lot of local media when we show up but in terms of the network news, the big newspapers, the cable news, weve been blanked out. And so thats a big frustrati