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CSPAN3 Key Capitol Hill Hearings July 12, 2014

Acting secretary gibson recently stated that he was deeply disappointed not only in the substantiation of allegations raised by the whistle blowers but also in the failures within the department to take whistle blowers complaints seriously. Within vha, the problem of intimidation, retaliation may be magnified by what some consider a protective culture of the medical profession. It is often thought to be against the code to point out colleagues mistakes or where a nurse or a tendant is told it is appropriate to question a physician or surgeon. The natural tendency is to close ranks, to not die that problems exist or mirs stestakes were ma. So after we listen to the testimony before us this evening from the whistle blowers, the office of special counsel and the va will anything change after we hear what the whistle blowers have to say and how do we fix this culture and encourage all va employees to step forward to identify problems and work to address the problems. Changing a culture is ....

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CSPAN Military Sexual Assault March 2, 2014

People that were paying attention. How many of you read the paper these days . [laughter] does i think they were ribbon around the papers trying to decide riveted around the papers trying to decide . I just dont know. I think the bigger impact really was the Grassroots Efforts that took lays within the plant, where people had to, within shifts, and in brakes had to inform people the fact that most of the employees got it that all they wanted for at the was dollarhe u v w signs. Reported right after that by the ap that they have had to sell 300 million in assets over the past several years just to survive. They are selling talks, theyre selling bongo theyre selling investments to survive cutting k to bed and sleep survived. Cutting back tremendously. Should officials be able to say and think what they think to be true . Absolutely. We have nine people who want question, but we are out of time. Thank you so much for coming. We h ....

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CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings July 9, 2014

Report the truth. Not to insult the reporters. And also the congressmen and women. Tois important that we try focus on what is really important here. That is the veterans of this country. Thank you. As an employee, i have routinely suffered retaliations. Talks about the devastating effects on patient care. In sections four and five of my written testimony, and outline specific packages to suppress whistleblowing and also to retaliate against anyone that speaks up within its ranks even without whistleblowing. The v. A. , in my opinion, has routinely intimidated any employee that has brought forth information contrary to the Public Opinion the v. A. Wishes to project. After they receive my report, i was placed on administrative leave for one month. I was investigated for misconduct because i provided limited amounts of information in order to support my allegations of the suicide andds and the facilities appropriate response inappro ....

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CSPAN Unaccompanied Immigrant Children July 13, 2014

2012 and almost 25,000 in 2013. As of july 6, over 50,000 children have been apprehended and placed in our care in fy 14. To address the associated challenges, a twopronged strategy has been put together. One is to drive down the length of time the children remain in shelters. The other is to expand our shelter capacity. When it comes to time, the children that are in our care, we have made significant progress. Since 2011 when it took 75 days to reduce that time to 35 and are continuing to make progress to move in more quickly. About 1700 beds and since january, and we have also opened a temporary shelters with three military races across the country. While temporary solutions were necessary in the short term, makeshift solutions do not make longterm fiscal sense. Morerary shelters cost than the permanent shelters. As we move forward, the reality is that we dont have enough beds and we dont have sufficient resources to continue to add beds to ensure that the children are not staying i ....

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CSPAN3 Politics Public Policy Today July 14, 2014

Pending health applications. Nearly 40,000 unprocessed applications discovered in january of 2013. These were primarily applications from returning Service Members from iraq and afghanist afghanistan. The ewrath that ive experience include my whistleblower complaint to White House Deputy chief of staff was leaked to my manager Sherry Williams who stated in writing that she was contacting me on behalf of acting sent gibson and mr. Rob neighbors. Neither mr. Gibson nor mr. Neighbors have responded to this fact. My employment records were illegally altered by cbo manager joyce deet terse. I was illegally placed on a permanent work detail by phillip mccofsky. I was placed on involuntary administrative leave curiously at the same time the oig investigation was taking place in atlanta by acting hec director greg becker. ....

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