i have a generic question that touches on this. is it possible to isolate a country in the middle east and solve its problem alone. or are we dealing with border-crossing issues. that had to be thought of as a reej nag issue. every country tries to fit in. i m going to take a swing at that and then i m going to dove tail to what s just been said. you could not deem with iraq alone, syria alone, israel and palestine alone. it is one region, whans in one part of the region affects the other paurt, as we have recently seen. and i think unless we have a regional strategy, we re doomed to disapointment in whatever we aticht. i just want to make one point about the iraqi people. this is about political elites using religious in fear to maintain control over the iraqi people. wech people in the united states who say iraq is not guilty a real nation, anyway. 40% of iraqis are from mixed mashages. that doesn t sound like a place that s highly sectarian to me. it is political e
increase the 5:kreecrease aqua . important to those efforts is the status of va s axcceleratin accessed secure nationaltive. the niche timp was launched in late may in response toet current weight time s process. information suggesting that last thursday, in coordination tw the other efforts has leds to 200,000 point nous. i to have concerns about the effort to date. one of the con essentials is the continued lark of information that skong has received about the nishlgtive. making this in a long list of examples of va failing to act in an open and trarns parent matter. the committee asked for a recap on june 2nd. i followed up with a formal letter on june 5th: it has now been 19 days since that request for an immediate briefings and no further information or 5:00 nol o knowledge. of our questioned to sooech. if va s work has, indeed, led to 200,000 more pay she says ths sense so far, what is left to ied. given that, how ca
reestablish our integrity. i think we can do that, and i think we can salvage a system which does provide good care, and we can make that system provide timely access. i am stunned that you would call this, with all the information that s come out, and i don t think we re at the bottom of all this yet, that you would call this a good system. i think it s absolutely stunning. and i think that the veterans administration is the most mismanaged agency of the federal government, and i think that it is not has not been there to serve those who have served this country, but the leadership of the va has been there to serve themselves, and we ve had testimony from this committee about all the bonuses, all the bonuses, despite the incredible bureaucratic incompetence and cultural exception. that s all you seem to be capable of doing is writing checks to yourself. mr. chairman, i yield back. mr. kirk ps. kirkpatrick, yo recognized for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman, and
additional authorities? any authorities being granted to help speed the process along? other than asking the facilities to look at their processes and the efficiency of their processes, see if they can identify internal capacity, and if they can not, to let us know what resources they need to provide that kair in the community. that process has occurred. the facilities have made their requests and to date. we have distributed approximately $312 million of which approximately, $152 had been obligated. according to the survey of america fa cigaretteses over 80% of primary physicians in theites see between 11 and 61 patients per day and u.s. physicians in general seen average of over 20 patients per day. can you tell us what the average daily patient load of a va primary care physician is? right now, the average patient load is approximately 10 patients per day. if i could qualify that by saying that i think we need to assure is that we understand what support staff ou
first. anyone of you. so, isil s incursion expanded the conflict. a border that iraq does not recognize and has very little meaning given the fact that violence is spanning the border. it will take some pressure off of assad because the forces fighting in iraq are not fighting in syria. it could mean that the other jihadist groups in syria are going to make inroads into isil territory in syria, which, by some accounts they already have. dynamics,ll have some but it won t change the fundamental dynamic of the syrian conflict, which is, you have a government under bashar assad who is trying to retain control. it is fighting in opposition that is largely. extreme. i would love to find that mythical moderate secular opposition in syria, but i am afraid one really does not exist, at least not in large numbers. itterms of turkey s role, will be very interesting to see what happens in the kurdish region. turkey and the pkk have come to some court of some sort of agreement recent