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We must restore our place as the leader of the free world. We are going to make America Great again. Cbs news brings you the republican residential debate. Moderator good evening, i am john dickerson. President , the first we are going to hear from the first six men that have to be the next nominee. They are here for their ninth debate. The first in the south primary is a week from today. George washington wrote that the truth will ultimately prevail when there is pain taken to bring it to life. We go to shut it shed light on this as the denton and make their decisions. We start us on stage. [applause] dickerson with us tonight, our retired neurosurgeon ben carson of florida. [applause] senator marco rubio of florida. [applause] Businessman Donald Trump of new york. [applause] senator ted cruz of texas. [applause] former governor jeb bush of florida. [applause] and < ....
Im not aware that its not comparable paid to dod. Ill have to look at that. I would appreciate that. Thanks. And want to know if thats true. Has the va considered offering other incentives such as loan repayment or increase pay for va providers willing to work in rural and underserved areas . We have not looked at that, congressman. Thats interesting. My understanding is the rural areas, rural areas and underserved areas, is typically well, we dont know enough about the investigation to know how this gaming the system sort of matches up, whether we are seeing the manipulation of wait times sort of the more prevalent in these underserved and rural areas. What additional professional opportunities could the viet offer it Health Care Providers would recruit and retai retraine who are dedicated serving veterans . I think we are doing things like market day, which gives them an additional pay to the base pay. The performance pay ....
Meeting this morning to subpoena two sets of documents from the va that were longstanding requests from the committee, but yesterday va delivered information regarding the removal of six ses employees for the past two fiscal years. This request has been made by multiple members of this committee, including myself, and multiple hearings going back to february. This morning va delivered the second set of documents which i requested via letter in october of 2013. The documents cover the Performance Reviews for each ses individual for fiscal years 2011 and 2012. Although vas response to my request and your request was delayed, their production of the requested materials is sufficient and, therefore, after consultation with the Ranking Member, well no longer be having a business meeting this morning. So this mornings full hearing is entitled pea review of awarding bonuses to < ....
Overall i do not have that number, but i will take it for the record. Okay. The ig has not completed their investigation, so we really probably do not have the final number right now. How much of the we talk someone about how the incentives may be should be based on outcomes rather than these metrics. I am targeting down on why the metrics, we lost control of them i heard testimony that had to do with technology, that we did not have we had a scheduling system that was easy to gain. Is that your assessment . I do not know enough about the system to make that assessment. Soaker. Well, because i just wanted the number of employees that were involved. It made it very difficult for anyone to make, you know, look at how people were scheduled to mile veterans were scheduled and it if there are a lot of employees, i can imagine that the scheduling component of the vista system apparently was vulnerable, but you testify on your expertise. Unfortunately it is not, congressman. Well, what other ....