Live on capitol hill, the House Appropriations committee working on 2021 spending levels today. One of the measures they are working on his defense spending. 694. 6 billion, an increase of 1. 2 billion from 2020. Congressman a nita lowey chairs the committee. I will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee of appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members could send anything they wish to submit in writing. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of business is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal. Ear 2021 thank you madam chairwoman. Remarks, igin my reluctantly have to acknowledge this will be my final Opening Statement before the House Appropriations committee. I have no new revelations to make but for those of you who will remain on this committee, there are a few things i would like to say. He saved the conditiona
Chief in her time as chief kirkpatrick has tackled several top issues for the department including a rise in Violent Crime in 2019 Racial Disparities in policing and improving the relationship between police and the Oakland Community kirkpatrick is at 38 year veteran in Law Enforcement and was brought in to transform the Embattled Oakland Police Department Following several scandal the time air libby schaff said the kirkpatrick was selected out of 30 candidates for her character leading by example and being unafraid to hold others accountable for the most on ethical conduct. Kirkpatrick was the First Female Police chief for oakland before that she had of the chicago Police Department Reform Efforts and prior to that she was Phillies Department executive for several Washington State cities and a police chief in spokane we have a reporter following the story tonight in open and we will have a live report for you coming up you can always stay connected with the kron 4 mobile app download
We were quite surprised there was no mention of the 40 deaths. I personally made no attempt to change that. That wasodd, since all over the news. We had questions from our neighbors and families, you worked for the v. A. , did you kill 40 people . Thats what people thought. But that is not the most important part of the i. G. Report. The most important part was that we have delays in care. Thats what we have to fix. I was interested that the report should address the 40 deaths, because my concern was veterans did not have faith in their health care system, and they need to come to us for care if they need health care. And, when you mentioned, you said we. The part that concerns me, you are the chief of staff, so this news, and wet of do have to move forward, trying to get back to where the disconnect is. When you mentioned we, who is the we . I corrected myself to i because im under oath and can only week to myself. But who did you talked with within the department . I know there were