Have not been determined. It could take several months to more than a year. The corporation is a multiple ongoing investigations to what happened. The subcommittee hearing is just over two hours. I want to take a moment of personal privilege. It is an article about hawaii and its history, some is good and some is not. The ninth district in virginia currently represent jennings was the only printing to vote so were kind of proud of that, its a little different than the rest of the state, sometimes good, sometimes bad but mostly good. Please take your seats. The subcommittee to order and i now recognize myself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. August 7 and eighth, a series of the out of maui and hawaii, including one that devastated the town of lahaina on the west coast of maui. When electric came in to dispute facts surrounding this event, one thing is important, its catastrophic to the state of hawaii and we must make every effort to be vigilant and prevent a similar disaster
Weather is concerned. Taking a live look at the skyline, it is beautiful and chilly. Take a look at the current temperatures. Dipping into the 30s. 37 in santa rosa and napa and cooler in the east bay. Fairfield, 36. South bay, 42 and a little warmer along the coast. Pacifica, 48 and San Francisco is 50. Your overall story, clear but chilly for the day and then sunny. That clear air will stick through and allow temperatures to be seasonal numbers today, nice and warm with rain returning in the afternoon or evening hours and i will tell you about that coming up. Investigators in texas are trying to figure out why a man open fire in a small church on sunday killing 20 people. 10 are in Critical Condition and the scene of the shooting rampage in Sutherland Springs texas, we are learning more about the victims. Among the dead, the pastors youngest daughter, 14yearold annabelle pomeroy. There were three generations of the holcomb family, ate an all including an unborn baby. The ward family
Thank you. And good morning, everybody. So a few weeks ago the president came over to my offices at va at his 100day mark to talk about the recognition of the progress weve had at va. So i thought it only fitting at my 100 days to come to his house to talk about whats happening at va. And as you know, the president is so committed to fixing issues for veterans that what he has told me is, is that it is important that we be open and candid and transparent about where the problems are, that as a businessman, the only way to fix the issues in an organization is if you come out and you talk about what those problems are. And so, as you know, im a doctor and i like to diagnose things, assess them and treat them. And so what youre going to hear today is really a candid assessment of where our problems are in va, with the focus of a businessman and the skills of a doctor to be able to actually help you with that. And as you know, many of these challenges im going to talk about today have been
An enormous step forward. Now, the agency has been in existence for only four and a half years, but has already done some important things. Its taken some enforce actions, its done policy work to protect those people who are not entitled or not eligible for anything other than subprime loans to protect them in the market. It has proposed some, some curtailment of the right to mandatory arbitration. But thats just the first step. That agency is under assault constantly in congress. I talked to my friend rich, he stopped counted the number of times hes been hauled up to the hill to testify. It was, i think, 50 at last count. Hes not only been there for a few years. We need more legislation, and in order oo eer to do that, we ne organize. We need to personalize these stories, and we need to look at the level of powers that are available to us and try to exercise power. So let me talk about a few things. One is if you look at mandatory arbitration, congress understands how powerful a force
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