Including some turtles. Thats right. Your tax dollars actually paid for a study that put turtles on treadmills. So here we have our turtles on a treadmill. To no ones surprise, it turns out that turtles are really, really slow. Okay. Thats what our tax dollars went to. In fact, this wasteful study found that turtles moved at nearly the same pace as dead turtles on a treadmill. Arent you glad that washington bureaucrats used your hard earned dollars to conduct this study . Good grief, folks. Now how many of your tax dollars went to this study exactly . Well, folks, your guess is actually as good as mine because there is no legal obligation for most federal agencies to publicly disclose the price of government projects even though the american taxpayers are paying for them. Folks, this is your money, your money. So shouldnt you have a right to know how it is being spent . Its been said before, and i sure believe it, government functions best when it operates in the open. This is the basi
Today and we welcome them. Lieutenant dingell, rear admiral bruce gillingham, surgeon of the u. S. Navy. Lieutenant general dorothy hogg, Surgeon General of the United States air force. Mr. Mccaffrey, assistant secretary of defense for Health Affairs and lieutenant ronald j. Pace director of Health Agency and mr. Bill tinston Program Executive officer of Defense Health care and management systems. Today we have serious questions on how medical reforms have been accounted for in the president s budget for fiscal year 2021. We will have members coming in and out. We are getting briefings on covid19 as we speak and theres a few other meetings going on. Your full testimony is available and i know members had it like i did last night to read through it. Well get start. Across is the spectrum of the military health care to benefit care in many cases the budget justifications lacks adequate detail for the subcommittee to make informed decisions. We hope the Witnesses Today can address the sub
[inaudible] assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. Nd director of the health agencies. And Program Executive officer of Defense Health care and systems. T today, we have serious questions on how medical reforms have been accounted for in the president s budget for fiscal year 2021. We will have ce, members coming in and out. E are getting briefings on coindividual 19 covid19 as and there are other meetings going on but your full testimony is available. Last members had it night, like i did, to read through it. So well get started. Spectrum in the military Health Care System to benefit care, in many cases the justifications lacks adequate detail for the subcommittee to make informed decisions. And an update on the electronic system, m. S. H. Genesis. We look forward to hearing about these topics and more. To thank you for appearing before the subcommittee and now i want to recognize our distinguished mr. Calvert, for his comments. Mr. Calvert thank you, madam chairman. Thank
This House Appropriations subcommittee hearing is an hour ad a half good hour and half. [indiscernible] Surgeon General of the United States air force. Assistant secretary of state defense for health affairs. Director of health agency. Officer ofcutive health care and management system. Systems. Today, we have serious questions on how medical reforms have been accounted for in the president s budget for fiscal year 2021. We will have ce, members coming in and out. E are getting briefings on coindividual 19 covid19 as and there are other meetings going on but your full testimony is available. Last members had it night, like i did, to read through it. So well get started. Spectrum in the military Health Care System to benefit care, in many cases the justifications lacks adequate detail for the subcommittee to make informed decisions. The departments study on reducing and eliminating Certain Health Care Services at many military Treatment Facilities and an update on the departments Electr
On capitol hill to testify on the coronavirus and how the military was responding to the outbreak. This subcommittee hearing is an hour and a half. Assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. Nd director of the health agencies. And Program Executive officer of Defense Health care and systems. T today, we have serious questions on how medical reforms have been accounted for in the president s budget for fiscal year 2021. We will have ce, members coming in and out. E are getting briefings on coindividual 19 covid19 as and there are other meetings going on but your full testimony is available. Last members had it night, like i did, to read through it. So well get started. Spectrum in the military Health Care System to benefit care, in many cases the justifications lacks adequate detail for the subcommittee to make informed decisions. And an update on the electronic system, m. S. H. Genesis. We l today, we have serious questions on how medical reforms have been accounted for in the