Agreements. Two days ago i spoke about the portion of this only wit omnibul that funds the department of state and foreign operations. But i also note and i can say this as the most Senior Member of the Appropriations Committee the bill also provides funding for many vital domestic programs that have suffered some very painful cuts in recent years. It provides increased funding for Public Health including mental health. Its going to increase the National Institutes of Health Budget by a billion dollars. In vermont, Rural Health Centers are essential for rural families. This bill includes 700 million more for these Health Centers nationwide. I know how important they are. I remember my first term in the senate helping to start one of our First Community Health Centers in the tiny county of grand isle county. Beautiful archipelago of beauty north of champlain. Some of the hardest hit from sequestration and the bill will help improve these programs by investing nearly a billion dollars. T
Because those plot lights are turned off. The Police Command than just left the scene. We see people coming in and out and we have not seen them take out a body bag or anything like that. We are not sure whether they found anything but again we are being told it is a death investigation. A friend of the family tells set the mother father and son who lived at this house are at Police Headquarters being questioned. Live from the scottsdale neighborhood, back to you. Shots fired today by South Suburban police. Blue island officers responding to a love triangle domestic dispute in posen between two men and a woman. One man shooting the other, then Police Shooting him. Witnesses say it was scary seeing police running through the neighborhood with guns drawn. Just coming back and forth trying to see. My mother sent me to the basement and she said probably somebody is there and go check. I checked and everything was fine. State police are now investigating because the shooting involved an off
Thank you again for your leadership and the opportunity to be a part of make it in america. And next from the state of pennsylvania, representative cartwright who has introduced the job creation through Energy Efficient manufacturing. Thank you. And thank you all for coming today. I want you to notice a couple things about the people standing before you on this stage. Were all wearing two things. Were wearing our congressional badges and were wearing our make it in america pins. We wear the first because we care about this country. We wear the second because we know that part of caring about this country is caring about making manufacturing jobs resurface in this country. And i thank mr. Hoyer on his leadership and in the make it in america plan, to strengthen businesses and create high paying jobs in this country. Im also gratified to have had hr4162, the job creation through Energy Efficient manufacturing act, added to this program. Energy efficiency is not just about being green, it
Now know from the whistle blowers about the wait list and the related mortalities. Largest Health Care Systems in the United States have driven improvements by harvesting and implementing best practices across their system. When organizations Like Community Health Systems identify a best practice, they move quickly to put the practice in place across all 205 facilities. This includes Patient Safety protocols, caregiver to patient interactions about medications and a leader accountability platform. I was concerned when i heard the wednesday on monday refers the amount of time they thaw it would take to make change. As john cotter would have us remember that the biggest okbjet tackle to achieving performance is high confidentsy. No matter what is decided, the va must embark upon change with a never before seen sense of urgency with a proven outcomes based solution. We open at the studor group that it can be as straightforward as transforming the rigger where they compel into an area wher
Past five or six years. But i think pretty obviously its a misallocation of the those resources. Mr. Collard. Not only a misallocation, but perhaps just looking the other way when you have the resources. I think i heard on monday night the fact, chairman miller, that you raised a specific financial number thats been invested or been provided for i. T. And i. T. Related services. The question was raised, wheres the money . And so whether its whether its misallocation or just, perhaps, an ignoring of those funds available, perhaps, leads to the current state. Dr. Mccaughey. Yes. The v. A. Budget has increased 173 from the year 2000 through 2012. That in inflation adjusted terms is 72 . The increase in total v. A. Patients was 69 . So the funding increased at a faster pace than the number of patients who had to be treated. And the number of acute care patients who need costly care increased only 49 . So the v. A. Funding should have been adequate to meet the increased demands on the syste