Our cemeteries will be open for our normal hours, which is sunrise to sunset. You may see some of our maintenance standards go of it because we wont be able to maintain the high standards we would like to have, but thats all retrieval once we have a budget. But focus here is on taking their families on the most painful day for them and making sure they feel that their veteran is respected and has been accorded dignified burial. Thank you, mr. Secretary. I appreciate that assurance, and your current work to make sure thats available for our veterans eric and, obviously, their as well. Youve seen the images of other federal places and locations that have been barricaded to our veterans. But i want to make certain we keep the cemeteries open, and appreciate your work doing that. I yield back my time. I think it does go without saying that we all care about the veterans of this country. And what we do have is a failure to communicate, negotiate, and there has been a breakdown in the instit
Im happy to do that. I know we are still a very fluid situation, but we reached out and asked we were talking about pts and whether they could get health provided their City Employees of the Indian Health service would provide direct Health Service to travel citizens and would largely be unaffected by the shutdown and that they would continue to provide correct Clinical Health Care Services as well as referrals for Contract Services that cannot be provided through their clinic. So, again, we just are somewhat confused as to the comment that was made in regard to posttraumatic stress, which i think everybody on the committee is very concerned with pity and i get a. Your statement that you can hear it today paints the worst possible picture thats out there. But in your statement it does not talk about the hundreds of thousands of employees that are still working in the health care that is provided so we just want to be honest with the questions and comments are provided. Im not saying th
Gotten little behind. And so in may we declared we were going to do this until the end of the year. Our 2014 budget has 50 million in it for overtime. And thats essentially what i was counting on to be able to transition to that. So we do have a plan. We do need that piece of the budget recognized so we can. Sume our overtime option we begin t we as to close out the year, before we knew a shutdown was going occur and how much carry over we were going to have, we thought we were going to be able to carry over 40 million to add to the 50 million in the budget so to give us a good run at the year of additional overtime so the numbers would be up there closer to 100 million, 90 million or so. That 40 million was used to as our operation going for long as possible and as many claims lined up before the end of the month. Thank you for that. We had a hearing about some difficulty with legislative back s acouple of weeks and had difficulty getting an answer like that. So i appreciate that. Tha
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