Those reductions would have these effects. It would cut veterans medical care by 690 million. It would eliminate the funding for four Major Construction projects. This would reduce the va ability to provide additional Outpatient Services and will impact the following projects. The planned rehab therapy building in st. Louis missouri. The initial phase of the alameda california outpatient clinic, construction of the longsought after french california communitybased outpatient clinic. The replacement 155 bed Community Living center in. Center in. , maryland and would eliminate funding for cemetery Expansion Projects in st. Louis portland riverside, bayer month, and pensacola and a new column in alameda at reducing our ability to provide burial honors for as many as 18,000 veterans and eligible family members annually. The impact of these tested veterans care and benefits is unacceptable to me and i no it is unacceptable to members of congress. Chairman, Ranking Member members of the comm
Undocumented workers serves to suppress wages overall. Fp there are people who can be hired and are potentially exploitable because theres the employers can hold it over their head the fact they could deport them or report them. That suppressed wages for everyone. Theres sort of two sides to the issue. When we dwet to the level of unemployment thats closer to full employment andy gave the examples of looking for workers. Theres a demand for workers then more people will be em ploiped. The challenge we face now while we see this sort of displacement at the local level is theres still a lot of slack in the labor market. Tell us who you are. Give us your name. In your comments you said you work better in the physical element. We have three major disruptions in our economy. The deep recession which i call Great Recession and the second vegs of 2008. Theres a singularity between all three of those. That is we had major tax reductions both in Capital Gains and the highest rate employment wen
With the cuban people. One thing they need is our technology. They have fallen behind us. They need access to more of our products such as Farm Equipment. We have some limitations as what we can ship to cuba. One thing we found, for example we took gifts of fencing tools and a set of wrenches down to them. If some of the professionals that were on our trade delegation werent sure if that was a very good gift to take when we took it to the farmers, they had had tears in their eyes that they went and the subsequent trade mission, they showed us all the fences that were built with our tools that we took down because we understood what their needs are. So as we get some efficiencies in our shipping, and bring our farmer to farmer interaction, we will improve their productivity which will increase the demand for our u. S. Goods. Do you have anything to add . Ill echo on to that. I think sometimes our biggest restriction on trade with cuba may be us and not them. And you have the power to wo
Veterans Affairs Secretary testified on capitol hill tuesday on the 2016 Veterans Affairs budget request. The proposed budget is 168. 8 billion, including funding to expand v. A. Care to veterans and transform the v. A. Into a customer centric department. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Tom fuller was a vietnam veteran and the marines and presented himself to the heinz the a with chest pains and went to see the head of cardiology. He did not want to be at a whim loss record, referred him to the floor and there, tom expired of a heart attack. We want to make sure that kind of thing never happens to our veterans, that we have a confident and Strong Administration of people. Mr. Secretary, i have raised this issue a number of times. Behind that is the story of a cardiologist who witnessed this whole thing and felt there was an outright malpractice happening in this case. I know you have a 10 minute opening. Secretary mcdonald thank you mr. Chairman. I have a brief opening statement
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