Senator, thank you for joining us. Senator rob portman of ohio. Well get right to it. You have been in washington for some time since the 1990s and worked in the two bush white housees and former house member and been a senator since 2010, how would you say this beats ranks to other state of the unions over the years . Where does this rank . The president as he always does, but there were no big proposals and it was kind of the me an ambivolent speech. The state of the union is going great and he said its not going so well and therefore we need to make some changes in terms of takehome pay and longterm unemployed and he said i want to work with congress and then he said, by the way, im going to go around congress. As compared to other states of the union that i have listened to, the message was muddled and hard for me to really know what he was trying to communicate. I believe he is uncertain about what kind of second term president he wants to be and there are a couple of models and b
Committee wants to gauge what is going on and how the quality of care is being delivered, i would ask you to spend a day Walking Around inside the local hospital talking to veterans and discussing their health care experiences, not sitting in front of a preselected panel of veterans to support sweeping jenlizations and to stoke public outrage. The fact is that the v. A. Health Care Services are excellent. Patient satisfaction Services Support that assertion. The primary complaint we hear all of the time from veterans is how long they had to wait to be seen for an initial appointment or to receive care. At its core, this is an access problem, not a quality of care problem. These are not the same thing. And to be clear, sending veterans outside of the v. A. To get private care is not the solution to this problem. It might be part of a solution, it is not the solution. Particularly for veterans who ly on it might be part of a solution. It is not the solution. Particularly for veterans to
Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. Tweet, cspanwj is our handle. You can also email us journal cspan. Org. Post story this morning, congress to pass 1. 1 trillion spending bill. The first votes on the plan are expected today. 48 hours after negotiators introduced the 1582 page spending agreement. The house is scheduled to vote on the measure today. The senate plans to vote on it around noon today. Live coverage on cspan of that vote for the house and tune into cspan 2 for the vote in the senate. Here is what john boehner had to say about moving quickly to vote on the legislation. The bill was posted last night. To thehlights went out members offices last night. Frankly, if we had time, i wouldve i would like to have more time. We are in a situation where the government is going to run out of money. We are going to have to move a shortterm cr. I think, under the circumstances, what were doing is appropriate. Host john boehner addressing concerns from many outside group
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