Officials from the Veterans Affairs Department Office of information and technology spoke about workforce recruitment and retention, Cyber Security concerns and modernization efforts while testifying on the president 2025 budget request. This is about 1. 5 hours. I would like to call this hearing to order. Once again, testimony was delivered late, only three hours before the hearing. I have mentioned this before. I am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. Ee. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses wi
Can go. We are going to leave this here for live coverage of the house hearing on president bidens request for the 2025 budget. Officials are testifying. Live coverage on cspan for you. As mentioned in this hearing before, i am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses with all the people in all the layers of the va and the white house bureaucracy who wrote the testimony to do better, not just for this committees sake but for the benefit of all the veterans who ultimately will be impacted by this. Good afternoon. Today we will examine the biden administrations budget requests for t
The hospital but in idaho, there is no place else that she can go. We are going to leave this here for live coverage of the house hearing on president bidens request for the 2025 budget. Officials are testifying. Live coverage on cspan for you. As mentioned in this hearing before, i am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses with all the people in all the layers of the va and the white house bureaucracy who wrote the testimony to do better, not just for this committees sake but for the benefit of all the veterans who ultimately will be impacted by this. Good afternoon. Today we w
A decade long. That is in ramallah in the occupied west bank and has. In the grand hall of the egyptian Intelligence Headquarters fatah and hamas officially signed on to egypts grand plan for palestinian reconciliation after a decade of division both sides expressed hope that this time it was for good. And again mean there has been full agreement on the concept of empowering the government and the legitimate Palestinian Government will return to working normally in accordance with his prerogative and the law. Despite the fact that we have some different views different political points we have different disputes but this will never change the fact that we are brothers we are brothers in religion we are brothers in nationality we are brothers in the National Interest we suffer the same we have the same future we need to find a way for a unity of our people to secure the ambitions of our people. This isnt the first time theyve been here repeated attempts to reconcile have failed a main s
Turkey iran and russia more from al jazeera. Who is at the jewel of the goes to Border Crossing on the turkey syria border. The possible the operation is underway but the buildup continues here on the border with syria there are still more reinforcements and more vehicles getting into the military Turkish Military bases on the border with the promise of. Now the stated goal of turkey in operation is to try to see the province of the best part of the ceasefire agreement between the different opposition factions russia and the Syrian Government but the troops now that crossed into syria are stationed in an area of village called. Which is on the. Border on the border where this is a territory under the control of. The Syrian Kurdish faction it seems that the Turkish Military is trying to take advantage of its deployment inside syria to block the kurds from expanding west towards places like libya and so briefly turkey of two goals first of all material presence in the second and most imp