40 years. for 40 years they ve been trying. you couldn t fire somebody if they were horrible for doing a terrible job for the veterans. robbing, stealing, hurting, you couldn t do anything. it s called the veterans accountability act and now you can say, you re fired. [cheers and applause ] thank you. and i promise you, we will always take care of our great veterans. always. right, lilly? you better believe it. and paul is up there.
you have been somebody who have allowed the private health care for vets. the there s c.a.r.e.p. do you think that proposal goes far snufenou s. we must get the veterans administration back focus odden the veteran. and i m tlilds that secretary shulkin is providing the important leadership that we need. this week in the house we ll be passing the veterans accountability act which will allow the va to fire employees who are not performing. this has been long overdue. we have had employees put ahead of actual veterans. this is an agency whose ole purpose is to help our veterans. too often they have to contact me or wait too long to get an appointment. i am thrilled that we re moving forward. i worked two years to get the fast care for veterans passed
stealing on planes and in supposedly secure areas of the airport. the video even caught a security guard apparently in on the act. my reaction to seeing those videos is that s really disgusting. it s pretty incredible isn t it? reporter: the video comes ss from a sting set up by police to stop a rash of thefts. 31 have been arrested since 2012 caught on camera red-handed. and when you catch them catch them in the act like you did on these videos what s the response? a lot of times there is no response. other than shock that they were caught. and that s okay with us as many of them that we can take away off the airfield the better it is for everybody that travels through miami international airport. reporter: but it s certainly not just happening in miami. a cnn analysis finds over the past five years, nearly 31,000 passenger claims of items missing from luggage filed with
voters republican voters that you can govern effectively given that legislative record. you could say that about almost any senator that served over the last four years. when harry reid was leader we virtually did nothing. and the point being that harry reid basically brought the senate to a standstill. you couldn t even get amendment s run on. it s begun to change under senator mcconnell. i would point out the fact that for example, the veterans accountability act that allows the vshths a. to fire senior executives in the v.a. that weren t doing their job that was a stand-alone bill that we got worked into as part of being on the conference that negotiated the final deal and got that put in. that s an example of what happened and was signed by the president but as part of a
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