from first page to the back page. i think that as a matter of policy and procedure and human rights we should have the posting of passports in nepal. i don t question for a minute we should have it from day one. we will now going forward. anything we communicate to the nepalese we do it both in english as well as the nepalese including their contracts, their employment contracts thank the chairman for additional time, and i yield back. thank you. now recognize mr. cummings for five minutes. thank you very much mr. chairman. i d like to discuss the examination of two construction contracts at the kabul embassy. the first one was in 2009 and the second was awarded in 2010 to a different contractor, that s correct? that s correct. can you briefly describe the two things that were contracted and their estimated completion dates? i believe the 2009 contract was to construct a number of temporary offices and housing. it was also to construct an office complex that my st
engineers to say these are the basic requirements and put our buildings together. so we could give you many documents, i think you have requested many of those already and we re in the process of giving those, so i m happy again to have our folks work with yours and to prioritize the list of things that you re asking for and to make sure that you get every single thing that you re asking for. this is sort of the recurring theme here. we re asking what was the plan for kabul, and there wasn t one. what is the plan for design excellence as opposed to standard embassy design, which was pretty fairly clearly defined. there are plans for both. and we can provide you documents for all of those things if we haven t already. that would be great, because we have been asking for a long period of time. and we still haven t got to that point where you could say, all right, now based on this, you should be able to understand everything we re doing with design excellence. that s what
confederate flag. i strongly urge every member to stand with the citizens of all races and to remove this symbol of hatred from our national park service. and with that i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. calvert: i continue to reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from minnesota is recognized. ms. mccollum: mr. chair i have the right to close. so i reserve my time until i close. the chair: the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. the gentleman from california wish to reserve? mr. calvert: i urge adoption of the amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from minnesota is recognized. ms. mccollum: i want to restate on june 25 what the national park service director when he requested that confederate flag sales be removed from the national
southern lawmakers in particular in a tough spot on the record on if they supported the flag by graves. the story quoting republican representative jody hice of george s saying this morning he plans to support the amendment. the amendment that is coming to the floor simply codifies existing law that has been in place for five years that allows the states to recognize historical significance on dates of their choosing while at the same time recognizing sensitivities that many have with the flag. while some republicans spoke about the confederate flag issue it was mostly the house to make rest that spoke on the floor. in a news briefing about it. here is that briefing. nancy pelosi: good afternoon. today we had action on the floor. i presented a privilege resolution that would have captured the action put forth two weeks ago. it was referred to the committee on house administration never to be heard from again. that is intolerable. i put forth mr. thompson s similar resolution
issues no matter what you re what program you re reviewing in the va. the data is of end insufficient. the automated systems they have in many cases cannot produce that, the kinds of things they need. it comes down to a lack of oversight both at the local level and headquarters level and time and time again the claims processing problems we found on emergency care for nonservice connected veterans same thing. the problem is that there will be no overall cultural shift at the va unless there s meaningful change or how whistle blowers are treated or anything else. that s really part of the problem. comes down accountability and it s not there. thank you. here it is june 1st another month and another scandal. and i want seems like the whole year has been like this. i for one am getting sick and tired of it. mr. williamson i would like to ask you for some background in this whole issue. whether we call the contracts illegal or just improper or noncompliant, what can go wr