From above. As we celebrate this vote today, we celebrate the lives of people like lou alvarez. Well never forget the heroes james delegate rode a, ray pfeiffer, and loual v. R. E. E. The september 11th Victims Compensation fund act is named to honor these three First Responders who lost their lives to 9 11related illnesses. Today the senate has an opportunity to honor these three and so many others that we have lost who never stopped fighting for 9 11 First Responders and the country they loved by voting yes on this critical legislation. Ive shared with many of my colleagues, i never had the privilege of going to new york city before september 11th, 2001, but i will never forget my first visit after september 11, 2001. It was just a few weeks after the attack had happened. Ill never forget the smell. Ill never forget the smoke coming out of the debris pile. Ill never forget the silent fire trucks with their lights on but no siren as they delivered even more heroes to the Recovery Effo
General. This is just under two hours. This hearing will come to order. I would like to welcome our witnesses. The title of this hearing, the unprecedented migration at the u. S. Southern border, subtitle, what is required to improve conditions . I think that is incredibly important that we concentrate on what can we do to improve conditions, Continuous Improvement . I have a manufacturing background. That is what we seek to do. I will say at the onset that nobody, nobody is satisfied with conditions on the border. Nobody is. This is unprecedented what is happening on the border. It is overwhelming. It is out of control. I was talking to the commissioner, the acting commissioner before the hearing, and mentioned how former dhs secretary jeh johnson was on msnbc couple months ago i talked and he talked about how when he came to the office, if apprehensions for the day were under a thousand, it was not too bad a day. If there was over 1000, he knew he would have a really bad day. The fac
Whileto reporters departing the white house. [inaudible] economy in the world. It has picked up tremendously. A lot of great things happening. Roof. Onomy is through the hopefully we will get a decision from certain branches of government. We have a lot of good things happening. We were just speaking with the department of commerce and we have interest in a country like. E have never had before do you regret targeting baltimore . Baltimore has been very badly. Ishandled for many years it is a corrupt city. Theres no question about it. All you have to do is look at the facts. The government has been pumping billions of dollars to no avail. Baltimore is an example of what corrupt government leads to. Billions of dollars have been given and i feel so far feel so far feel sorry for the people baltimore. If they asked me we will get involved. We are already involved in the standpoint that over many years billions and billions of dollars have been given to baltimore. Theres a lot of corrupt
Sailors, and marines, had criticized the commander of the u. S. Navy. Including criticizing him for mistreating british prisoners. This is embarrassing to the u. S. Government, but think about it. The Founding Fathers put everything on the line. This was not an election or paul. If they lost the revolution, they would get hung for treason. In the middle of thats revolution, they paused, and they said every inhabitant of the United States should report waste, fraud, and corruption to congress and appropriate authorities, even if it barest the new government it embarrassed the new government. They passed the law and voted money for the lawyers for the whistleblowers who had been thrown in jail. And they released all of the ,apers that were controversial that were embarrassing to the government. The whistleblowers won the case. 1778, so this30, is not some token day. This is a day for every american to sit back and say, whoa, whistleblowers have been with us for a long time and they have
At any time. Today is the subcommittee entitled learning from va whistle blowers. On june 25th the subcommittee began this hearing to discuss the importance of va whistle blowers. We heard testimony from people inside the va who raised major questions and concerns about critical problems that affect the health and wellbeing of veterans. These witnesses were willing to blow the whistle even when it risked their live lee hood and careers. Unfortunately we learned that the va continues to struggle with the culture of retaliation against whistle blowers. In too many instances va leadership and supervisors have turned a blind eye to those in vas work force that have pointed out Serious Problems or attempted to support bad actors and even worse the whistle blowers are often the target of active retaliation. One striking example came from doctor catherine mitchells testimony. In 2014 she was one of a group of people working at the Phoenix Va Medical Center that exposed the existence of a secr