ms. mccarthy for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the opportunity. we certainly support the unions and the airlines. i think what i would look to mr. anderson on one quick question, are there any other american airlines experiencing the same problems that you are? >> yes. >> 31 different properties i represent, all the major u.s. airlines. the swer to that is absolutely yet, we're getting hit by this. we need reform. >> we did negotiate two years ago, which we thought was a fair agreement. so here we are at this point. what do you think would be a fair agreement? where would you want to change the language? is it only enforcing xm bank? is it something different? >> it needs to be mandatory. >> the language that was prefatory last time needs to be made mandatory. >> we've tried to be targeted to try to go at the very issues that hurt our employment, and the issue that hurts is our government further subsidizing deeply subsidized foreign airlines. >> i doubt very much you would ever again lang what people here don't like to use the word mandatory. if

ms. mccarthy met with mr. podesta as well? can you give me the information about the frequency of those meetings in the location of the meetings in the subject matter of those meetings? >> i will take that back. >> the question is can you get me the information? >> i will take the question back. >> this is about love. we talked about that. it's about politics and it's also not about science and i want to turn to science now. i talked to ms. mccarthy about this and i want to make sure nothing is changing your view. we have 30 indicators down from 26226 to 30 indicators on your web site about how you measure the impact of what you all call climate change today. i want to ask you a series of yes or no questions about these carbon regulations and what you think they will do to the indicators that epa uses. so yes or i know what the set of rules fully implemented reduced sea surface temperatures? >> i can answer that. i don't know. >> will it reduce ocean acidity? >> will contribute to reducing ocean acidity. >> you have the data t

ms. mccarthy said. mandating things are rather difficult. what could we do to address those concerns and move this forward? >> congressman scott, i want to first thank you. i don't know if you remember, but you stood by my side in front of 1,000 delta pilots on keep delta my delta, and your speech is still viewed in that light with when you stood up and said this is truly a david and goliath. when david was walking back and said, is there a cost, there is a cause. he turned around and went back. the cause here is xm bank reform. and i commit all our resources, everything to work on that narrow part of the reform that we need so that we meet a fellow veteran's needs, small business needs, but we meet our needs so we stop losing jobs. i'd be happy to help. our team will help. anything we can do. and thank you again for that day. you know where we've come from there. >> oh, absolutely. i certainly understand. mr. anderson, what would be the narrow scope of language that we could add that could address your problem as we move the xm bank forward

ms. mccarthy said. mandating things are rather difficult. what could we do to address those concerns and move this forward? >> congressman scott, i want to first thank you. i don't know if you remember, but you stood by my side in front of 1,000 delta pilots on keep delta my delta, and your speech is still viewed in that light with when you stood up and said this is truly a david and goliath. when david was walking back and said, is there a cost, there is a cause. he turned around and went back. the cause here is xm bank reform. and i commit all our resources, everything to work on that narrow part of the reform that we need so that we meet a fellow veteran's needs, small business needs, but we meet our needs so we stop losing jobs. i'd be happy to help. our team will help. anything we can do. and thank you again for that day. you know where we've come from there. >> oh, absolutely. i certainly understand. mr. anderson, what would be the narrow scope of language that we could add that could address your problem as we move the xm bank forward

ms. mccarthy, for a minute and a half. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i appreciate this hearing. i'm a little confused on what i'm hearing. this is about jobs. and i can talk about my district. i work my district. i try to bring certainly businesses into my district. and i know in the last several years, i have been able to help my small businesses $86 million, just into my district alone. a lot more jobs added over the last seven years. that's what our job is. to make sure that we can bring jobs home. as the ranking member had mentioned, mr. hensarling, who unfortunately didn't bring a lot of money into his district, but maybe he didn't work the district. i don't know. and mr. mccarthy, who always supported the ex-im bank did have over $69 million that came into his district. this is about jobs. my colleagues on the other side keep saying, we're going to do jobs. we're going to do jobs. where are they? people seem to have a very short memory. when we went through the great crisis, nobody went after the banks. nobody went after the insurance companies. when we look at the exbank

ms. mccarthy met with mr. pedesta? >> i expect she has. >> can you give me the frequency and subject matter of those meetings? >> i will take that back. >> that is not the question. >> i will take the question back. >> great. this is about politics. right? that's why mr. pedesta is working on this. this isn't about law. it's also not about science. i want to turn to science now. i want to make sure nothing changed in your view. you have now 30 indicators, we've gone from 26 to 30 on your website how you measure impact of what you all call climate change today. i want to ask you a series of yes or no questions about this set of regulations, these carbon regulations and what you think they will do to the indicators that epa uses. yes or no. will this set of rules when fully implemented reduce sea surface temperatures? >> i can't answer that. i don't know. >> will this reduce ocean acidity? >> it will contribute to reducing ocean acidity. >> do you have the data to support that? how much and when as a result of these regu

ms. mccarthy, for a minute and a half. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i appreciate this hearing. i'm a little confused on what i'm hearing. this is about jobs. and i can talk about my district. i work my district. i try to bring certainly businesses into my district. and i know in the last several years, i have been able to help my small businesses $86 million, just into my district alone. a lot more jobs added over the last seven years. that's what our job is. to make sure that we can bring jobs home. as the ranking member had mentioned, mr. hensarling, who unfortunately didn't bring a lot of money into his district, but maybe he didn't work the district. i don't know. and mr. mccarthy, who always supported the ex-im bank did have over $69 million that came into his district. this is about jobs. my colleagues on the other side keep saying, we're going to do jobs. we're going to do jobs. where are they? people seem to have a very short memory. when we went through the great crisis, nobody went after the banks. nobody went after the insurance companies. when we look at the exbank

on our second panel we will hear from doctor maureen mccarthy, deputy chief of patient care services for the veterans health administration, and ms. lorraine landfried, deputy chief information officer for product development for va's office of information technology. they are accompanied by dr. mary lawrence in the deputy director of the vision center of excellence, and mr. pat sheehan, director of va's 508 compliance office. [inaudible conversations] >> i think we will continue, for a committee members will continue the process as stating your name so that those who are vision impaired in the audience can know who is speaking. i would ask the panel to do the same. dr. mccarthy, your complete written statement will be made part of the hearing record, and you are not recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. good morning, chairman coffman, ranking member kirkpatrick, and members of the committee. i appreciated the opportunity to discuss the department of veterans affairs contributions to the visual center of excellence, and the care and services are provided to veterans with visual impairment. i am accompanied today by doctor ma