Trump. He believes in nothing other than himself. You said oh, ben carson surging. Well, im almost double his numbers. Thats a big part of who i am. Humility and the fear of the lord. I dont get that impression with him. Gwen on capitol hill, the president s victory on the iran deal. Minority leader pelosi im very proud of the debate and the substance on which our colleagues have based their decision. Gwen while a new Foreign Policy issue crops up. Can the u. S. Offer safe harbor to refugees fleeing syria . President obama the refugee crisis is not just a european problem. Its a world problem. Gwen but will that be enough . Covering the week, jeff zeleny, senior washington correspondent for cnn. And anne gearan, National Politics correspondent for the washington post. Michael crowley, Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent for politico and doyle mcmanus, columnist for the los angeles times. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering hifflet as it history as it happens. Live from our N
Undocumented workers serves to suppress wages overall. Fp there are people who can be hired and are potentially exploitable because theres the employers can hold it over their head the fact they could deport them or report them. That suppressed wages for everyone. Theres sort of two sides to the issue. When we dwet to the level of unemployment thats closer to full employment andy gave the examples of looking for workers. Theres a demand for workers then more people will be em ploiped. The challenge we face now while we see this sort of displacement at the local level is theres still a lot of slack in the labor market. Tell us who you are. Give us your name. In your comments you said you work better in the physical element. We have three major disruptions in our economy. The deep recession which i call Great Recession and the second vegs of 2008. Theres a singularity between all three of those. That is we had major tax reductions both in Capital Gains and the highest rate employment wen
I do catch instances where i wish we were more transparent and better about customer service. The other thing id like to mention. We had a group get together in little rock to discuss reimbursement to providers that have provided outside care. Youll have situations that arise, now with this 40mile rule that the v. A. Owes this money, it appears the v. A. Owes a lot of people in arkansas a lot of money. And has not been very forthcoming in paying those bills. Its another thing that makes it such that the trust issue that we talk about. The other problem is, if you dont pay your bills theyre going to quit dealing with you. And then, thats the greatest thing. And that really is going to affect quality of care. Can you quickly mention that . I will, and maybe ill ask carolyn to comment. I talked about the five strategies from my v. A. One of them i talked about was improving our internal support services. And going to assured Services Model where we centralize the bill paying. So thats all
With the cuban people. One thing they need is our technology. They have fallen behind us. They need access to more of our products such as Farm Equipment. We have some limitations as what we can ship to cuba. One thing we found, for example we took gifts of fencing tools and a set of wrenches down to them. If some of the professionals that were on our trade delegation werent sure if that was a very good gift to take when we took it to the farmers, they had had tears in their eyes that they went and the subsequent trade mission, they showed us all the fences that were built with our tools that we took down because we understood what their needs are. So as we get some efficiencies in our shipping, and bring our farmer to farmer interaction, we will improve their productivity which will increase the demand for our u. S. Goods. Do you have anything to add . Ill echo on to that. I think sometimes our biggest restriction on trade with cuba may be us and not them. And you have the power to wo
Veterans Affairs Secretary testified on capitol hill tuesday on the 2016 Veterans Affairs budget request. The proposed budget is 168. 8 billion, including funding to expand v. A. Care to veterans and transform the v. A. Into a customer centric department. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Tom fuller was a vietnam veteran and the marines and presented himself to the heinz the a with chest pains and went to see the head of cardiology. He did not want to be at a whim loss record, referred him to the floor and there, tom expired of a heart attack. We want to make sure that kind of thing never happens to our veterans, that we have a confident and Strong Administration of people. Mr. Secretary, i have raised this issue a number of times. Behind that is the story of a cardiologist who witnessed this whole thing and felt there was an outright malpractice happening in this case. I know you have a 10 minute opening. Secretary mcdonald thank you mr. Chairman. I have a brief opening statement