Sexual assault response coordinator. I immediate privately with the front line defenders on the war on sexual assault, ill say. They report to me overwhelmingly that they think were making progress on all fronts but one. And here comes the hardest of all, i think. Were definitely not satisfied. And that is the issue of retaliation. So, retaliation, by the way, can be if you report sexual assault, the boss takes some action against you, which is or feels like retaliation. Ill call that official retaliati retaliation. The other form is just when your peers in the unit kind of find out whats happened or what allegedly happened and they take sides and maybe they treat you differently or maybe people who are your friends now shun you. Ill call that unofficial retaliation. Our piggest problem is on that unofficial part, people who rush to swrujudgment to and take si who is going to replace dr. La plant as acquisition czar . Rich lombardi is now in the acting capacity. Thats dr. La plants dep
Infrastructure to deliver that care. Within the v. A. Within the v. A. But where we cant justify that business decision we need to be outsourcing. And just one more thing that follows up with that. In another year you guys are probably going to be gone with the new administration. I hope not, i hope yall stay but youre probably going to be gone. Are you laying into process so that whoever takes your place assuming that youre not brought back that the transition would be seamless and the justification to keep going . Were absolutely looking at ways that we can institutionalize what were talking about doing. Thats a better word. And i would say that one of the important roles that this committee can play is to be a stalwart of continuity about some of these operational things. Youve had six or seven different outsourcing. How to make sure theres a direct connection from v. A. And Community Providers and from the business side having one pot of money for care. I think what we tried to do
Call this meeting to order. Welcome, everybody. Hope yall had a great thanksgiving and hope everybody has a wonderful Holiday Season coming up. This is a very important hearing for the United States senate. On november 4th, if my memory is correct, we had a meeting at the va. Sloane gibson, dr. Schulkin and some others were in the room. In terms of Va Health Service delivery to our veterans, veterans choice, consolidating programs, reimbursement rates so there wasnt any preference over another. A reality in our lifetime and in their lifetime. With that will come a number of decisions. This will not be the first time i heard most of this information. We had that meeting before. It will be the first time a lot of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. This is a critical there are a critical number of decisions we will have to make to make my va work. The new veterans choice work and make sure that va does what it does best well bu
What youve probably thought about in terms of the enabling legislation for this particular program. If you dont do that, then youre building the transformed system on outdated policies that may or hey not have ever been appropriate. They just happened to get through congress and you have to live up to them because theyve been mandated to you. Im not going to get into a lot of questions except that the reason i continue to have this flavor to my discussion is i want to help you establish a plan that transcends your tenure and your positions. So do we. That continues when we get another president. That needs to be articulated. And we need people in the va to put the mirror back on us, saying youre asking me to do this thats shifting away from the other thing you asked me to do. If we do at that, and you put the mirror in, its our problem. If we make a request, and you dont reflect back on us, its your problem. And i want to make this our problem so that we can help facilitate the transfo
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered today by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, thank you for giving us another day. It is your nature to hold us in your living presence always. It is our nature to think of you and of others only momentarily or in passing. Be with each of us that we may be our very best and prove ourselves worthy of your love and your grace. Bless the members of this peoples house in their work and deliberations today, that they might merit the trust of the American People and manifest the strength of our republican democracy to the nations of the world. Without you, o lord, we can do nothing. With you and in you, we can establish a community of peace, goodness and justice now and forever. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to