[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good evening and thank you all for being here and joining us. Its a somewhat unusual for the committee to meet in the evening hours. Tonights topic is one worth staying up late for. I want to keep our work this evening laser focused on the future on how we can all Work Together to create a better, brighter, healthier one for our veterans and for the Health Care System that weve built to serve. Rather than rehashing the mistakes we made long ago. As we begin to move forward this evening we mustnt lose sight of where we started. Three years ago next month in this very room, the Committee Heard testimony from a veteran who spoke about waiting almost a year for care from the department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in south carolina. When he was finally seen long after he should have been, he was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer that had spread to his liver and his lungs. He passed away in january last year. It was hi
[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good evening and thank you all for being here and joining us. Its a somewhat unusual for the committee to meet in the evening hours. Tonights topic is one worth staying up late for. I want to keep our work this evening laser focused on the future on how we can all Work Together to create a better, brighter, healthier one for our veterans and for the Health Care System that weve built to serve. Rather than rehashing the mistakes we made long ago. As we begin to move forward this evening we mustnt lose sight of where we started. Three years ago next month in this very room, the Committee Heard testimony from a veteran who spoke about waiting almost a year for care from the department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in south carolina. When he was finally seen long after he should have been, he was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer that had spread to his liver and his lungs. He passed away in january last year. It was hi
Theft and sale of drugs by agency workers. The House Veterans Affairs Committee Held this hearing late last month. Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome everyone who has joined us today. Today we will address the lack of oversight in internal controls regarding controlled substances within the Veterans Health administration that leave facilities open to Drug Diversion and veteran harm. The diversion of drugs from v. A. Health care facilities is an incredible Patient Safety issue that puts veterans, v. A. Employees and the public at tremendous risk. Unfortunately the news has recently been filled with story after story of Drug Diversions within v. A. In little rock, arkansas, v. A. Pharmacy technician reportedly used his access to medical supplies, websites to order and divert 4,000 oxycodone pills over 3,000 hydrocodone pills and more than 14,000 viagra and cialis pills at the cost of the v. A. Of more than 70,000. This technician was allegedly selling thes
Worlds outside of our solar system today. We have brief recitations from all of our panelists, and then we will answer questions from those in the studio, on the phone, and on social media. Asknasa. Se the hashtage use the asknasa. Thomas, can you start off with would be big news of the day is . Thomas thanks so much. Ive been associative administrator for close to five months, and i have just been in awe today about the deaths and breath of the science we do here. Breadth of thed science we do here. Announce that we have used our space telescope to determine that there are seven offsite planets orbiting a nearby star about 40 lightyears away whats more, as you can see in this illustration, is that three of these planets are in the habitable zone that liquid water can pull on the service. With the light atmospheric conditions, there could be water on any of these planets. We found it many terrestrial planets around a single star, and that is the first time we theseeen able to measure h
Just as significant than comcast or verizon. Announcer watch the communicators monday night at 8 00 p. M. On cspan two. Next, a look at president trumps most recent order on immigration into refugees. Speakers discuss whether or not it is one hour and a half. Maureen good morning, everyone. Welcome. I feel like a schoolteacher. We are waiting for a few more people to sit down and then we will start. Thank you for coming. As you know, a new executive order on travel and immigration to the United States was signed. The order replaces the january 27 executive order, whose implementation was halted in multiple federal courts. The new executive order is titled protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry. The new order is similar to the original but it contains revisions and clarifications. It was drafted far more carefully to avoid legal challenges. The new executive order still bans travel for 90 days for muslim majority countries but now we have only six countries. Iraq has been ta