And that was what prompted my direction to say we are going to overhaul the standard performance contract for Medical Center direct recent visitor directors because we are not going to have a contract with their result is aligned with the patient outcome. I think is going to take some of those kinds of structural changes as well to ensure we get people focused. The last thing i would say is this. You know, we are so focused on wait times. As we think about how we teach timeliness of that is in the future, the centerpiece of that is a much more robust focus on patient satisfaction. I think that helps us resent her back on the veteran we are serving in notley cannot wait times in the 700 other metrics that weve got people. Those types of responses should be the driving force to whether someone gets a bonus or how they are compensated. Yes. The spec or general reply to us at it is led to more layers of administrative aspect rather than actual care and that really is a concern. I had a mee
The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , july 24, 2014. I hereby appoint the honorable john j. Duncan jr. To act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip imited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise this morning to urge, indeed to plead with my colleagues to cosponsor Bipartisan Legislation that representative kinzinger
Temperatur temperatures. Highs in the 20s, higher 20s north and west. In northern virginia, lots of sunshine with a light wind. The weather is sick, is the traffic looking well . I am tracking delays. Looking near route 123, a little volume here, just a little. And you see the tractortrailer to the right shoulder lane. But travel lanes are open. Were starting to see volume. Down 66 eastbound, this is as you make your way near lee highway. The broken down car is off to the right shoulder lane. You see the volume increasing, but folks are getting by. In stafford county, an earlier accident involving a tractortrailer. Southbound route 17 at Hartwood Church road. Youll see one lane getting you by the accident there. Im back at 6 11. Coming up, restoration crews working to get a springfield apartment back open after it was damaged by a fire. It broke out last night on backlike road. Two people were sent to the hospital for smoke inhalation. Another 45 people have been displaced from their h
Politically conservative, but fiercely principaled and independent. And mccains absence was felt this year in the u. S. Senate due to declining health. A true warrior though, until the end. He battled this aggressive form of brain cancer that was first diagnosed back in 2017. Mccain served as a u. S. Navy aviator for more than 20 years. He was shot down over north vietnam, and he was captured and held there as a prisoner of war. That did not change his spirit, after he returned, he returned to politics after the war. He ran for president twice, and in 2008, he became the republican nominee, eventually losing to the former president , barack obama, shortly the news of his death broke, a prosession here, you can see the vehicles escorting the hearse from the property to the city of phoenix, arizona. Mccains wife, cindy, sent a tweet saying my heart is broken, im so luck to have live today adventure of loving this incredible man for 38 years. He passed the way he lived. On his own terms.
He was a congressman. He was a senator. He was a nominee for president of the United States. These are all the titles and the roles of a life that has been well lived, but they are not the greatest of his titles, nor the most important of his roles. He was a great man. We gather here to mourn the passing of american greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served. He was a great fire who burned bright. The america of john mccain is generous and welcoming and bold. She is resourceful and confident and secure. She meets her responsibilities. She speaks quietly because she is strong. America does not boast because she has no need to. The america of john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. Dad, i know you were not perfect. We live in an era where we knock down old americ