I have not seen one of those yet, so i cannot give you a solid answer based on any criteria or facts. Why do you represent support representative thornberry as your successor . Did i write that one . [laughter] that is an easy question. Thornberry and i came on with the Armed Services committee at the same time. I was elected in 1992, but i did not get onto the covidien my first term. We came onto the committee at the same time, we sat next to each other for many years now. Ive had the opportunity to watch them, visit his victor, see how he relates to the people in his district. I see how he relates to the other members of the committee. He is very articulate, very smart. He has good leadership skills, very serious. He has also a member been a member of the Intel Committee for a long time. I think he would make an outstanding chairman for the house Armed Services committee, and i strongly support him. I could give you many more reasons, but if you know that copy you the facts, you know
Providers they might want to offer storage type of philosophies to compete with amazon or other storage capacity. They also have incentives it easier to charge the differentiating out among the various people that want to use the capacity to make more money that way than to fill that capacity at possibly be charging them less because now you dont have to demand constrained. Some people are going to pay more for more like room on the airplane. They can charge some people a little bit more because some people value a little bit more comfort so whereas the average person would say i cant pay another 50 for this im just going to have to muddle along. Host you used to terms. Guest title 02 is the common carrier status. Guest host it became the proposal guest to classify them as Telecommunication Services. The providers are allowed to be regulated as common carriers under federal law. Guest kind of buried in the document is one sentence that says alternatively to classify them as telecommuni
Now, the chairmans opening remarks, he was correct. We are not here to analyze a poll that was taken about the va. But we are here rather to look at the investigations that have already taken place, and addressed certain deficiencies within the veterans system that no action was taken on, or at least not corrective action. In fiscal year 2013, the reported 93 of specialty primarycare appointments and 95 of Mental Health appointments were made within 14 days of the patients or providers desired date. At first glance, these numbers appear to demonstrate that veterans are receiving the care they want and when they want it. However, we know this is not the case. I think if va had asked hard questions regarding these statistics, we would not be here today discussing recent allegations surrounding many va facilities. More specifically, we are here to discuss when Senior Leadership in the department became aware that local va employees were manipulating wait times to show that veterans do not
[inaudible conversations] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you all for coming this morning. My name is kenneth feinberg, and ive been assigned the task of designing and administering the gm ignition compensation claims resolution protocol, the gm ignition switch compensation program. I want to spend a few minutes this morning, a, an overview of the program, how we got where we are. Secondly, i want to summarize the Eligibility Criteria for claimants who can file a claim. There are and third, i want to explain a bit the dollars and the compensation that is available under the ram. Under the program. We started drafting this protocol about two months ago at, initially, gms request. We have reached out to a wide variety of individuals and institutions to get as much information as we could about what ought to be in this ram. In this program. I thank General Motors for their total cooperation in establishing this program. Theyre funding it, and theyre funding it without any cap on
That interview is sat 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Michele flournoy is our guest on this weeks q a. In government, youre dealing with the daily tyranny of the inbox. Youre focused on the crisis of the day. Part of my responsibility as undersecretary of defense was representing the secretary of defense on the socalled deputies committee, which is sort of the senior level group thats working through the issues, developing options for the principals and the president. A lot of Crisis Management focus. When youre in a think tank, your real utility is not trying to second guess the policymaker on the issues of the day but help to do some work to raise their day, help them look over the horizon to see what are the issues that im going to confront a year from now, five years from now, ten years from now, and how do i think more strategically about americas role in the world . Former undersecretary of defense and cofounder of the center for National American security, Michele F