Meeting this morning to subpoena two sets of documents from the va that were longstanding requests from the committee, but yesterday va delivered information regarding the removal of six ses employees for the past two fiscal years. This request has been made by multiple members of this committee, including myself, and multiple hearings going back to february. This morning va delivered the second set of documents which i requested via letter in october of 2013. The documents cover the Performance Reviews for each ses individual for fiscal years 2011 and 2012. Although vas response to my request and your request was delayed, their production of the requested materials is sufficient and, therefore, after consultation with the Ranking Member, well no longer be having a business meeting this morning. So this mornings full hearing is entitled pea review of awarding bonuses to Senior Executives at the department of Veterans Affairs. This morning, were going to examine the outlandish bonus cul
Lets go to forbes on fox. So, steve, should the irs be handing out these bonuses . David, no. Talk about public be damned, talk about content for the public, heres an agency thats rogue. Thats been swept under the rug. The president brazenly tells bill oreilly theres not a smidgen of corruption and now they say theyre going get bonuses because it will hurt morale if they dont get it . What about the morale of democracy . Now the president said there is no smidgen. Before there was a lit. Do you think these bonuses should be handed out to the boneheads . Its like a payout of 1 . If youre looking at a pay for performance thing, i dont think its a big deal. He said hi couldnt find a less deserving person to get a bonus. Maybe they need to look in the mirror with congress and the way theyve been performing. But two wrongs dont make a right, bruce, you know that. Right. But im thinking if youre tithing government workers, it should go along with performance. Fair enough. But the fact is ric
Lets go to forbes on fox. So, steve, should the irs be handing out these bonuses . David, no. Talk about public be damned, talk about content for the public, heres an agency thats rogue. That been swept under the rug. The president brazenly tell bill oreilly theres not a smidgen of corruption and now they say theyre going get bonuses because it will hurt morale if they dont get it . What about the morale of democracy . Now the president said there is no smidgen. Before there was a lit. Do you think these bonuses should be handed out to the boneheads . Its like a payout of 1 . If youre looking at a pay for performance thing, i dont think its a big deal. He said hi couldnt find a less deserving person to get a bonus. Maybe they need to look inhe mirror with congress and the way theyve been performing. But two wrongs dont make a right, bruce, you know that. Right. But im thinking if youre tithing government workers, it should go along with performance. Fair enough. But the fact is rich ca
Man . And is this going to be another situation of home grown terror and a relationship to isis . Molly now live for us in boston. Reporter we know the man was under the surveilian of the joint Terrorism Task force. He was shot about 7 00 this morning. Still an active scene here. We are in a residential area in boston. This is a quiet area of the city on any normal begin day. Police say this was a joint investigation. The fbi also involved. A Boston Police officer and fbi agent approached this man intending to ask him questions. He pull bad the Police Commissioner described as a black military style knife then lunged at investigators. Take a listen to commissioner william evans. The officers asked him several times to put that knife down. They gave him several commands. The officers tried their best retreating. Again several more orders to put down and at that point, he came within the proximity that the officers used deadly force. Reporter both the fbi agent and the Boston Police offi
Listen. You know, i dont plan on sticking to the guidelines. I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me even though i am in perfectly good health. You have the joints chiefs of staff recommending to the department of defense that troops, u. S. Troops coming home from ebola fighting missions in west africa, be quarantined for 21 days. Why is it so abhorrentnjnn to yo put yourself in that very same position . You know, i truly believe that this policy is not scientifically nor constitutionally just. And so i am not going to sit around and be bullied by politicians and force today stay in my home when i am not a risk to the american public. You have to remember that just a couple days earlier dr. Craig spencer returned from guinea where he was treating ebola patients. He moved freely about the new york area. Then he developed symptoms and was diagnosed with ebola. Do you understand what that did to the psyche of Public Officials in what is a metropol