Approximately 25,000 per disabled veterans. President trump thank you very much. A great honor. Great people. Thank you. Sit down, please. Thank you. I want to thank amanda riley, truly thrilled to be here with thousands of americas proudest, toughest and most extraordinary patriots, the incredible veterans of amvets. We love our veterans. [applause] thank you very much. You are special people. You fought courageously for our country and now my administration is fighting courageously for you. Thats for sure. [applause] and you know we have accomplished a lot. We have done a lot. And one of the things we have done is, you get that medical care quickly now when you go into those doctors. You used to have to wait for weeks and weeks and weeks. You dont wait anymore. You go see a private doctor. We pay the bill. And people are really happy about it, the veterans are very happy about it. [applause] veterans choice, you have been trying to get that for 40 years. 44 years. I guess longer, pro
Primary. We will talk calls and look for comments on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is live every day at 7 am eastern on cspan. President obama released his 2017 budget request this week. It provides for continue support of afghan nationt Security Forces. Several Defense Department officials gave a status at a House Armed Service subcommittee hearing earlier today. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Welcome. I am delighted to convene this hearing. This is a very important topic and one i know Ranking Member speier finds concern. I know the gentlemen from north carolina, mr. Jones, is attending the hearing with us today and i unanimous consent mr. Jones and any other members not assigned to the committee be allowed to participate with the understanding that all members sitting on the subcommittee will ask questions first. Without objection so ordered. The oversight began last week with the foundational testimony that general campbell laid out testifying about the evolving securit
Enough. Aid enough is what about the Womens Movement . Said we years ago women are not going to be treated as third class citizens. We are going to do the work we want to do. [applause] ,e are going to be able to vote to run for political office. Huge struggles. But women as a result of those efforts made in norman us progress in normans progress. The Environmental Movement didnt happen in washington. It happened because people said what is going on on this planet of ours . You cant destroy it. We have to protect the planet. You think about gay rights. If we were sitting here 10 years ago, and somebody said i think in 2015, gay marriage will be , the personstates next to him would have said what are you smoking . Which raises another issue. [laughter] but the point is, when people at the grassroots start moving, and when they say this is not right, in this country people should have the right to love anyone they want regardless of their gender [applause] tremendous changes took place.
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