To provide the committee further assistance. Thank you very much. At after new chairman mccain, chairman graham, Ranking Member killer brand and members of the personnel subcommittee. It is a privilege to appear before you today at this initial hearing on Defense Health care reform and i hope my participation in todays hearing will be of assistance to you in the Defense Department as you seek to ensure the military Health System is strength in and is able to provide optimal support to those who wear the cloth of this nation, their families and those who are in the retirement benefit due to their careers service. I believe im a framework for reform is to begin with an assessment of what is working and not working. But the environmental conditions are like me to look like in the future, including the go to work capabilities and needs than what approach will likely ensure success in the future. For my nearly 20 years a Privilege Service at the site of dod and now va, this worm and up unti
Nation, their families and those who earned a retirement benefit due to their career of service. I believe any framework for reform needs to begin with an assessment of whats working and not working, what the environmental conditions are likely to look like in the future including the go to work the capabilities and needs and what approach will likely insure success in the future. For my nearly 20 years of Privileged Service at the side of d. O. D. And now v. A. I believe there are four fundamental questions worthy of explosions. First, does dodd have the most effective efficient Management Structure and tools to deliver on the needs . And is the investment in the direct care system being optimized . Theres a great deal of experience inherent in the footprint and the personnel required to establish the foot print. Theres great efficiency to be gained when sizing a system, hen making make vs. Buy decisions and croort cooperating appropriately and leasing when the leasing is broached. I
We could find ways to address that and honestly they werent all my ideas. George walker and barbara and others were involved in developing those ideas, democrats and republicans developing those ideas in virginia. Because i believe there are bigger problems within our system and our system is not unique. I think there are problems in systems all over the country. That is why i pushed the study resolution. This was just an incremental change. We change an important piece of the Mental Health picture but the real work lies ahead. We have to reform the system and our work will be a failure unless we do. We have to use this opportunity of the study resolution to spend four years working very hard, very intensely at the virginia process. We have to see what works and what doesnt and we have to come back with real changes over the next four years. In virginia at least its incremental to change that we passed. Did it go far enough . Well i think we change what we could change this year. Polit
Personnel and averting humanitarian disasters. Our strikes outside those guidelines but consistent with the president s view that it is time to pursue a more offensive phase in the campaign against isil. The hill made clear on yesterday that the pentagon is way for a goahead from the president. I have not heard anyone say that you or ambassador rice that is something that i interpreted in the testimony on capitol hill. I think the most accurate way to describe the current circumstance is that after extensive planning by the president S National Security team and his senior military inpersonncluding a briefing you received earlier this week, the president and hiS National Security team are prepared to conduct airstrikes in syria that are consistent with the brought into airstrike campaign that the president laid out last week. Question. Ery simple besides anything else this is a complex issue. I understand. It is a very simple question here. We are not asking about time. We are not sayi
Advances. The New York Post showing al franken groping Arianna Huffington during a photo shoot and following the latest on roy moore, who is vowing to, quote, never give up as he faces Sexual Misconduct allegations by at least nine women. Peter doocey is live in washington. Whats the latest from congressman John Conniers . Reporter conyers denied second wall harassment when he was accused two years ago but no longer denies that his office made a settlement 25,000. Conyers said the resolution was not for millions but for an amount that equated to a reasonable severance payment. There are rules of confidentiality that regard to the employer and me. The house determines to look further at these issues. I will fully cooperate with an investigation. Speaker of the house paul ryan said the conyers report is troubling and for her part the House Democratic leader nancy pelosi was asked that conyers paid out a Sexual Harassment settlement. She said no. It includes the signing of nondisclosure a