Please proceed with your testimony. Chairman miller, distinguished members of the committee, our goiding principles for implementation of the choice act have been to do whats right for veterans and to be good stewards of taxpayer resources. While our challenges are clear, were turning those challenges into opportunities to improve the care and service we provide to veterans. We are reorganizing v. A. For success to make sure we maximize those opportunities. We call that reorganization my v. A. , an associated Customer Service solution that goes along with it. Because we want veterans to view us as an organization that belongs to them. Providing quality care in the ways they need and the ways they want to be served. My v. A. Entails functions, operations, improving processes, leveraging technology and enhancing efficiency, increasing productivity and effectively implementing the choice act. A 360degree effort to provide veterans with a Seamless Integrated v. A. Regardless of how they co
Values, the kurds themselves, are the largest minority population in the world. Without a country themselves. Therefore, the same question would be posed for them. Not sure it would be long. The message the Committee Received from the government is that they desperately need equipment, what is the government response for that . Can i throw it back at you and ask what specifically they requested . Machine guns, we saw that. They wanted armored vehicles, things like that to assist them. Request to the uk government at that time . The defense secretary visited recently, and certainly, as has been covered by the media, we have given a number of weapon systems and heavy machine guns, which comes with training as well. They are complicated weapons to fire. 50 cal. So, i think the yorkshire has gone out to help with the training. I have a little bit of concern here, i express them careful. This has been their hour of need. No doubt about it. They were up against it, the world responded. By pr
Washington journal continues. Host we are back with congressman walter jones, republican of North Carolina from the Armed Services committee. What is your assessment of the isis strategy so far . Is it working . Guest let me say that one of the worst mistakes i made since i have been in congress was too vote to pass the aumf, authorization of military force, to give president bush the authority to go into iraq. Host in 2002 . Isst yes, maam, the reason we have a constitutional responsibility and i do not think we should commit our young men and women to war unless we debated on the floor of the house when we have a constitution that we promised to uphold. I had just gotten tired sick and tired of seeing all these commitments overseas and its always the american soldier is going there. These other countries at best have limited involvement and i think its wrong. For me personally, i wanted to say to secretary hagel and i like him and i know him i wanted to say to him that if you think w
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