We are working hard to collect every penny that we can. I am out of time, apparently. Mrs. Titus. Thank you mr. Chairman. A lot of that money leftover though, was used quietly to pay for the continuation of the denver project, wasnt it . Are you talking about the money from the treasury for the last five years . Wherever you found that. Its not available to us. We cant use that money. We thought we could, and its money that essentially becomes, as i said deobligated as expenses come in and also sometimes that there are new expenses for whatever might have happened in, lets say, in 14, and that money is used in that year, so you can become antideficient after the fact, so to speak. So that 1. 3 billion was not available to us. We had hoped it would be. I was the staff person that had the cryptic conversation with the house staff back in june and we had we thought we had a plan when i mean, in my opinion, quite frankly, we are a victim of our success. We have gotten many more veterans ca
Secretary of state kerry is due to appear before a Senate Committee to defend it. Plus anger in beijing after a court hands out long sentences to scores of its nationals for illegal loving. A u. N. Envoy to syria is due to hold talks with the Syrian Government in damascus. On wednesday there was concern over the plight of civilians. Government air strikes caused wide spread death and destruction. The town has been subjected to several barrel bomb attacks this week alone. Themore than people have fled syria with millions more displaced. Many crossed into neighboring countries which is struggling with a huge influx of refugees. More than a million are in lebanon. Jordan has taken in over 600,000 syrians, close to 2 Million People have fled to turkey. The numbers continue to rise. Mohamed has the latest from a Turkish Border town that has thousands of refugees. Reporter talk has turned to concerns about spillover of violence to neighboring countries from the syrian conflict. Those concern
At the v. A. Have any accountability or any responsibility at all for this happening . If so, how much . Of course we do. As was laid out in the last hearing on the same subject just a few weeks ago, there are many reasons that we are where we are. I think we all share some of the response ability. We have a new program called the Choice Program. We have seven different ways of providing in the community. Im sorry. Did you want to interrupt . My time is limited. You have described with the layout of the land is. Is going to show you what accountability we half. Ok. Do you have any role in this . One of the things you learn is to have no excuses. One of the things that baffles me this case is we are dealing with a Computer System that is over 30 years old call the fms system. It is written in a language i wrote in 1973. We have got to change the Management System of the financial of this enterprise. Our i. T. Budget is about 50 of what a Health Care System i. T. Budget is. We have got t
You at this point. Mr. Kaufman. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, thank you for your service in the United States army. Although the president id like to think the president chose you in recognition. In proctor and gamble. And we had in this committee, my predecessor on the over sight subcommittee had requested a study of Major Construction products and that was done and published in april of 2013. At that time, it said there were four ongoing projects one in las vegas orlando, new orleans aurora colorado listed as denver. That the average 366 Million Dollars over budget. And that they were each on average about three years behind schedule. We clearly knew there was a big problem. If you and proctor and gamble were to step in and you had an apartment that was that dysfunctional, you would have fired the management team. Straightened it out, spotted off when i look at the v. A. , your core competency is benefits to veterans, health care being a significant part of that. Constructi
They host a forum today on federal investments on innovation and science. Newt gingrich and Business Specialist along with academic researchers will be talking about the issues our live coverage just about to get underway on cspan3. As we wait for senator warren, well bring you a story from the Associated Press regarding the Iran Nuclear Deal president obama traveling in ethiopia, and the ap reporting he delivered a belittling rebuke of Republican White House hopefuls monday calling their attack on his landmark nuclear deal ridiculous, if it werent so sad. Obama suggested the rhetoric from some gop candidates was an attempt to divert attention from donald trump. A wealthy businessman whose popularity is con founding the republican field. Maybe quoting, maybe it gets attention, maybe this is just an effort to push mr. Trump out of the headlines, its not the kind of leadership that is needed for america right now. The associate press quoting president obama during a News Conference in et