Veterans issues and how lawmakers are working to improve Veterans Affairs programs. The event was hosted by the American Enterprise institute. Lets try to get started here. Good morning. Welcome to aei and welcome to our program today. The value of our veterans, our conversation with representatives, mike levin and brad. Im gary smith, im a senior scholar here as strategic studies and im director of aeis program on american citizenship. I amng toi skip a set of am going to skip a set of introductions since we will be talking the next two hours. So those joining us here in joining online or watching on cspan, if you want lengthier bios go to the website and go to the link for the page and you will see everybodys biographies. Let me begin by giving a quick overview of the proceedings. We will first hear from representative mike levin, the recently a district that runs recently elected congressman from californias 49th district, a district that runs along san diego to southern Orange Coun
Lawmakers are working to improve services and programs at the Veterans Affairs department. From the American Enterprise institute, this is one hour and 40 minutes. All right. Lets try to get started here. Good morning. Welcome to aei, and welcome to our program today, the value of our veterans, a conversation with mike levin and bread when strip. Im gary schmitt, im a senior scholar here s in strategic studies at the American Enterprise institute and director of the program on american citizenship. Im going to skip the introduction since were trying to pack in quite a bit in the next two hours, less than two hours. So for those joining us here and or online or watching on cspan, if you want lengthier buyers please go to aeis website and go to the link for the events page and you will see everybodys biographies. So it may begin by just giving a quick overview of the proceedings today. From representative mike levin, the recent elected congressman from californias 49th district, a distri
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