Shannon good morning, everyone. Welcome to our symposium on the future of anticorruption in u. S. Foreignpolicy. Everyone knows that the senator, we know he has been thinking about these issues for many, many years. Let me start off by asking you in your time here, 30 years are close to 30 years here in washington, you have dealt with a lot of foreignpolicy challenges. Youve dealt with wars, economic classes and refugee crisis. All sorts of threats and amid all of these, where did corruption link . Thank you very much. Take you to the council on Foreign Affairs for holding this series of discussions of dealing with corruption. You have to realize there are forces working against us. We scheduled this over a month ago and we had snow. Here i am trying to get away from the Nuclear Fallout happening in the United States senate. There are outside forces at work here. Corruption is you talk about my experiences when i first came to congress, i got involved in the Helsinki Commission basical
Discipline v. A. Employee. Is that one of the inherent problems at the Veterans Administration . Rep. Roe when we met with dr. Scholz after he was sworn in, and by the way elected 1000. I had breakfast with him and accountability was the first thing that came out of his a mouth his mouth. We looked at and accountability bill to allow the v. A. To more quickly determine it for performing for performing employees. Many of them in my hometown, we have a major the a medical center. They are Close Friends of mine. They are dedicated veterans. A poor performing employee hurts them. We want to give the secretary the tools and we passed and accountability bill out of the house already, which shortens the length of time it takes to discipline a poor performing employee while still allowing them their due process rights. It might slow down but its still about two months. It is not like where you may be terminated today. It is still a couple months process, even this expedited process we are look
Worlds outside of our solar system today. We have brief recitations from all of our panelists, and then we will answer questions from those in the studio, on the phone, and on social media. Asknasa. Se the hashtage use the asknasa. Thomas, can you start off with would be big news of the day is . Thomas thanks so much. Ive been associative administrator for close to five months, and i have just been in awe today about the deaths and breath of the science we do here. Breadth of thed science we do here. Announce that we have used our space telescope to determine that there are seven offsite planets orbiting a nearby star about 40 lightyears away whats more, as you can see in this illustration, is that three of these planets are in the habitable zone that liquid water can pull on the service. With the light atmospheric conditions, there could be water on any of these planets. We found it many terrestrial planets around a single star, and that is the first time we theseeen able to measure h
Post cspans guest this week on newsmakers, is david shulkin. Easily cabinet secretary that is a holdover from the obama administration, the only secretary unanimously confirmed by the senate. He is a practicing physician still in oversees the secondlargest Cabinet Department with 1700 sites he is responsible for in an agency that serves 9 million veterans. Thank you for being our guest. Let me introduce our two reporters. Been castling is making a , national visit securities and Veterans Affairs reporter for the washington journal. And the Capitol Hill Bureau chief for military times. Leo, you are asking the first question . I wanted to start with the issue of accountability. It is the threeyear anniversary of the phoenix, the wait time scandals at the v. A. And we got news that you have demoted the Medical Center director there. You have made accountability a big issue in the early days, but i wonder has that been the missing piece with Reform Efforts and missing years recent years, a
Post cspans guest this week on newsmakers, is david shulkin. Easily cabinet secretary that is a holdover from the obama administration, the only secretary unanimously confirmed by the senate. He is a practicing physician still in oversees the secondlargest Cabinet Department with 1700 sites he is responsible for in an agency that serves 9 million veterans. Thank you for being our guest. Let me introduce our two reporters. Been castling is making a , national visit securities and Veterans Affairs reporter for the washington journal. And the Capitol Hill Bureau chief for military times. Leo, you are asking the first question . I wanted to start with the issue of accountability. It is the threeyear anniversary of the phoenix, the wait time scandals at the v. A. And we got news that you have demoted the Medical Center director there. You have made accountability a big issue in the early days, but i wonder has that been the missing piece with Reform Efforts and missing years recent years, a