Without their integral involvement. I think from the challenges, the article does that, naming them, talking about them, and trying to understand where theres common ground, theres difficulties figuring out, ultimately with a goal of Getting Services to people who need them, from a Public Health evidence based services to people that need them is the end game we want. And then lastly data, we took a cursory look for today. Id like to do more on that, i think thats critical. Mark . Where you live often changes where you think. Where im located, i dont see the negatives as much as the positives. Were flooded with great opportunities, we cant take in all of them. To see the partnerships that are going on are terrific. So im very positive on this. I think in terms of addressing the challenges, it is the faith communities can be the trip wires for the challenge and the solution at the same time. Weve had conversations with the north american chair of somalia, hes very interested in working
The other thing was that they took all of their resources and put them into initial claims. And i focused on the decision review officer as a key point, person on these Regional Offices. Theyve taken them out of their regular job to the detriment of the appeals process because now theyre not doing the certifications that are necessary to take a veterans appeal from the Regional Office to the board of veterans appeals and there in limbo oftentimes for many years now which is shortcircuiting whole situation. More importantly whats concerning to me at least talking to our service reps in the field is its like the va is considering as the enemy. Many Regional Offices are people are not allowed to talk to anybody. You have an to anybody. Youre issuing acclaimed its comeback, you can talk to anybody. You just have to take it deal with it, today. I retired in 2002 until i got this job in 2005. I worked three years as a service rep in manhattan and the Regional Office. If i had an issue on a c
Also district maps a foldout map of capitol hill, and a look at congressional committees, the president s cabinet, federal agencies and state governors. Order your copy today, its 13. 95, plus shipping and handling through the cspan online store at cspan. Org. Tonight on the communicators, at this years Consumer Electronics show we met up with you a Thor Peter Nowak who says were in a new phase of Human Development and through robots and other technology were likely to enhance the human condition. Robots i think is an especially interesting one because 2014 i think was the year of robot angst. I dont know if i could a day went by i didnt see some kind of story about how robots are stealing jobs from humans and were all going to end up out of work. On a daily basis you hear stories about here is a robot thats a better bartender than humidities a better waitress or waiter than humans and so on and so on. The thing that i find the point i think thats missed a lot is that every prior revol
And excitements we have to capture channel the future of our communities. To get people in school. Teach young people how to read. If we get people at grade level reading we will be strong. First learn to read and then lead to report read to learn. The person that reaches out learn so much more about the preconceived notions and how long they work. That makes us all better to be the mayor they say that poverty is an education. The strategy for violence is education. And i think intolerance you could say the same thing. Its education. I have to bring this to a close. Please join me in a flanking the panelist and i will turn it back over. Thank you for your kind introduction and for your wonderful leadership with sacramento and as Vice President the wonderful leadership in the United States conference of mayors. I wore a bulletproof vest on the walk to columbia which made it a little more difficult for. And when of the proudest moments in my life. Reverend price, my fellow mayors , citiz