Veterans. This is just under three hours. Rep. Roe the committee will come to order. Before we begin, i would like to ask unanimous consent that congressman sablan will be able to sit and participate in todays hearings. Hearing no objection, so ordered. Welcome. And thank you all for joining us today for the joint hearing of the house and Senate Committees on Veterans Affairs. This afternoon, we will discuss implementation of the john s. Mccain, daniel kay akoka, and the samuel r. Johnson department of Veterans Affairs maintaining internal systems and strengthening integrated outside networks act of 2018, better known as the v. A. Mission act. The mission act is a truly transformative piece of legislation that will impact virtually every aspect of scare that the v. A. Provides. Developing it took many months of intense negotiation, and close collaboration between our committees, the trump administration, the department, and numerous Veterans Service state advocates. We should all be pr
We take you to Arlington National cemetery as Veterans Affair secretary Robert Wilkie will a a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldiers and take part in veterans day observances. The armistice entering ending world war i occurred on this on 1918 at 11 00 a. M. Ready, set. Ready, front. Ready, front. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [no audio] [no audio] ready, set [national anthem playing] order ready, set [drum rolls] playing] order [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [applause] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] order [no audio] [singing] march, forward, march, march. Forward. Forward. Every Mountain Side let freedom ring freedomedom, let ring [applause] [no audio] [coughing] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] ladies and gentlemen, please come mr. Lawrence , and thel l howard United States Army Military district of washington. Miss karen at regular, six executive director, Arlingto
Major general michael l howard, commanding general of the Headquarters National Capital Region and the United States Army Military district of washington. [applause] miss karen durham and cure a lot, executive director, Arlington National cemetery. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the honorable robert l will q junior, secretary of Veterans Affairs. Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for our nations for the procession of our nations colors and those of our Veterans Services organizations. As we march on the colors, the United States marine band will play the National Emblem march. Please place your hand over your heart or render a hand salute. Please remain standing for the prayer for all veterans delivered by the director, via a Chapel Services v. A. Chapel services. Pray, eternal god, you alone rule the destinies of nations. We come this veterans day to invoke your presence in this sacred garden on this 100th anniversary of the ending of world war i. We realize it is only th
Cable satellite corp. 2022] there were going to leave washington journal. You can finish watching this online at cspan. Org or with the cspan now free video app. Take you live now to the house floor for votes here on cspan. Which yeas and nays are ordered the clerk will report the title. The clerk an act to establish American Fisheries Advisory Committee to assist in the warning of grants and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . As the member
For the past two weeks, we’ve been discussing a series of events where Board Chair Maureen Mulheren attempted to justify violations of the Brown Act, California’s Open Meeting Law.I’ll provide the punch-line now: I believe the problem has been solved.I’m not going to re-plow recent ground other than to point out that Mulheren argued that […]