Spring. Next, Veterans Affairs secretary, Dennis Mcdonough talks about expanding healthcare and benefits for eligible veterans and their families, during his address, he discusses Building Trust in the va, workforce challenges and modernizing the agency. Good afternoon, welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. Im the president of the National Press club and managing editor of standards and training at good afternoon and welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens, im eileen oreilly, and the managing editor of seniors and training at axials. Thank you for joining us both here and online for our headliner event with Veterans Affairs secretary, denis mcdonough. To submit a question online, please email headliners at press. Org. For our cspan and public radio audience, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public so any applause or reaction you hear is not necessarily from the working press. It is now my pleasure
Shortages . In. If i heard i think there are many questions embedded in there. Lets take one at a time. We put in place a policy to allow safe, nutritious formula to come into the country to make sure parents could find product on store shelves during the period of the national shortage. We had certain labelling requirements and they are primarily for things like safety. For example, a baby that has a cows milk aller by the were leaving this here you can watch it in its entirety if you go to our website. Live now to capitol hill where Veterans Affairs Department Officials will testify in their efforts to upgrade technology and improve Financial Management at the v. A. Live coverage here on c span. Good afternoon, the subcommittee will come to order. Were here today to review the vas progress in the transformational Business Program or fmbt. Its the vas third attempt to modernize the aging inadd watt financial and accounting systems. Material witnesses and deficiencies for decades. At t
Modernization. Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to other. This is or second hearing on the va. Gov bugs and the struggles they have created f veterans to access their benefits. Id trying welcome o witnesses back to the discussion on these issues. The number of veterans affected now exceeds 120,000. To recap about 32,000 veterans submitted their disabout it compensation claims through the website. But the claims were never established in the system that processes them. This has been happening since 2018. In addition, roughly 81,000 veteran and family members request to add or remove dependents on va. Gov as the spread saysor system was not processed causing them to be overpaid under paid. This has been happening all the way back to 2011. On top of that, other veterans were unable to access the notice of disagreement form on va. Gov to appeal denials of their claims this. Went o for about five weeks before being discovered. I understand that o witnesses have an update on the nu
45 minutes. Chairman tester i am going i want to thank secretary mcdonough and her friends and partners for joining us today. For those of you joining us on television, you will hear a great opening and questioning of the secretary of the v. A. We have three people who were going to do a combined statement , which will be particularly entertaining. So we have something to look forward to. Chairman tester we do. We are here to take a closer look to the president s 2024 budget request for the department of Veterans Affairs. We have to ensure the department is wellequipped to care for our veterans. The v. A. Completed more than 1. 7 million disability claims. They served over 6. 3 million veteran patients, more than 150 million employments. Demand is only increasing. This law created a fund to cover the new cost of delivering. I have serious concerns to got the fund. Gut the fund. It is all bad news. We send people off to war, we put it on the credit card. They come back and we make excus
Important challenge we have got in our lifetimes. It is always going to be the most important challenge. If we do not get this right, we have got nothing. It is education and it is climate. I have [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] we will break away at this pointer for live coverage of the u. S. House. Lawmakers are considering a handful of bills today, including one that doubles u. S. Customs area of operation in coastal waters. Live coverage of the u. S. House is here on cspan. The clerk h. R. 53433, a bill to amend the Small Business investment act of 1958, to exclude from the limit on leverage certain amounts invested in Smaller Enterprises located in rural or lowincome areas and Small Businesses and Critical Technology areas and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuan t to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr