The flagship collection we have here in corpus. He made it his life to help local and beyond mexican americans learn to be more civically active and to get the benefits they had coming to them as veterans which were sometimes very difficult for them to obtain. This represents a case of private longoria which was an incident that occurred early in the g. I. Forum. Private longoria served the United States during world war ii and was killed by a japanese sniper toward the end of the war. His widow arranged to have his funeral conducted by the only funeral home in her hometown of three rivers texas, which is near Corpus Christi. They were willing to conduct the funeral but not willing to allow his body to remain there in the funeral home overnight for fear of offending the white citizens of the area. She appeals to dr. Garcia, and he conducted a Letter Writing Campaign to people with positions of influence. A response came from Lyndon Johnson who had been recently elected senator. He stat
Get our complete schedule at cspan. Org. Both the house and senate are not in session today but lawmakers will return next week. Senators plan to continue work on a measure that requires the Obama Administration to submit any Nuclear Agreement with iran to congress and will attempt to override the veto disapproving the National Labor regulation Board Regulations issued last year live on cspan2. House members will meet with senators for a joint meeting of congress to here marchand japanese Prime Minister for would say before returning to work on 2016 federal spending for military construction, Veterans Affairs command energy work development. Next, health and Human Services secretary Sylvia Burwell testifies other departments 2016 budget request this totals 84 billion. She spoke for about two hours. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, Human Services and education related agencies will come to order. Pleased to have the secretary with us today. Thank you for taking your tim
Voted to fasttrack and the vote failed and he did not get the vote. In 2001 under president bush 21 democrats voted for fast track. That didnt prevail with the republican votes. There was a tie it was 215 to 214. The republicans were equally divided. We said you can consider these bills in the congress on a fasttrack if you abide by the maids have an agreement which we work with the administration on that honored the ilo principles and list of standards that had to be met as well as issues that relate to endangered species montreal protocol and other Environmental Issues that were contained in that. I want just to say that weve always had the lively debate on the subject regardless of who was president of the United States. Its not a question of well democrats stuck with president clinton but didnt stick with president obama. That is just not the case. We need to ask what this does to the paycheck of American Workers. This is the debate were having. What is being put forth is that bett
The other thing was that they took all of their resources and put them into initial claims. And i focused on the decision review officer as a key point, person on these Regional Offices. Theyve taken them out of their regular job to the detriment of the appeals process because now theyre not doing the certifications that are necessary to take a veterans appeal from the Regional Office to the board of veterans appeals and there in limbo oftentimes for many years now which is shortcircuiting whole situation. More importantly whats concerning to me at least talking to our service reps in the field is its like the va is considering as the enemy. Many Regional Offices are people are not allowed to talk to anybody. You have an to anybody. Youre issuing acclaimed its comeback, you can talk to anybody. You just have to take it deal with it, today. I retired in 2002 until i got this job in 2005. I worked three years as a service rep in manhattan and the Regional Office. If i had an issue on a c
65. By 2030 that number will have grown by 30 million. And by 2050, that number will have grown by 40 million. So as you can see, the percentage of the old old as you in the orange and yellow boxes in this chart grows very quickly. Again, if you think back to the chart in terms of the amount of per capita spending that increases as people age you see we are looking at a growing number of individuals who, in fact, will be the most expensive portion of the Medicare Program. At the same time we have fewer young people coming in and we have fewer people that are paying payroll taxes to essentially support the program. And, of course, among those who are the most costly and juliet touched on this issue, are those who are dual ebl jiblligible. But Rising Health care costs is also an issue for the beneficiary. As juliet pointed out, as a population theyre not all living in palm beach. They are relatively low income population. Health status and chronic conditions are also significant drivers