coming up all future the second half of the debate between max blumenthal and morton klein said. and i don't know how it works like. the crap. like. i've been aren't higher but isn't this great by a bunch. like. as in there's more than just the one. i'm the read and i'm fighting here one. hundred. welcome back to the show and now more of the debate between max blumenthal author of the lie of life and loathing in greater is going on more than klein the president of the zionist organization of america. i've heard a lot of a lot of heated rhetoric coming from the israeli establishment too and considering that gaza is completely closed off the people have nowhere to go don't you think that the way that this campaign is being waged amount to collective punishment innocent civilians. so i said these civilians voted in this terrorist nazi like terrorist group they get they rent out their living rooms for rocket launchers israel wants them to leave their homes where the rocket launchers are leave the hospitals leave the mosques where rocket launchers and missiles are there warned ahead o

murphy: thank you, senator blumenthal. thank you, senator blumenthal. i know we have some other colleagues on the way down to the floor to speak, so i will be brief. i just want to join senator blumenthal, thank him for his tremendous leadership. he noted that going back to his days as connecticut attorney general, now as a member of the judiciary committee, there have been few people in this country, frankly, who have led taking on the fight against gun violence especially when it comes to protecting victims of domestic violence than senator blumenthal, and i'm proud to join him in offering this amendment. after being married for a number of years, zena daniel and her husband radcliff houghton became estranged, and in october of 2012, she got a restraining order against him telling the court that he had slashed her tires and threatened to throw acid in her face and burned her and her family with gas. she told the court that his threats against her terrorized her every waking moment. she got a permanent restraining order, but even that permanent restrai

blumenthal has been working on this for years.ars have tried to portray themselves as abortions should be safe, legal and rare that gives that game up. that's not what this is about. this is for people who believe that abortion should be available all the time for any reason under any circumstances whatsoever. the politics, i think, of this are particularly striking. you can can see the democrats think that they have an advantage in using the abortion issue as part of a broader war on women narrative. and the war on women narrative certainly worked for them in 2012. what you are seeing here democrats as a party or at least those who have signed on to this let's pushing against things that are incredibly popular throughout the country. pushing on the notifications, the late term abortion bans, all of these things that have huge popularity throughout the country. two to one in many cases. and democrats are taking a strong stand against those things. i don't think the politics of this are what democrats think the politics are. >> to

thank you senator grassley, senator whitehouse. >> senator blumenthal. >> thank you very, very much, senator whitehouse for convening this hearing and for yourself spearheading and advocating measures to stop domestic violence. i want to join you in thanking our chairman senator leahy for fermt -- permitting this hearing to go forward. i also want to thank senator klobuchar who has been so stead fast and strong in advancing this cause. i'm proud to be working with her and to be supporting her bill as a co-sponsor, and i think our measures are very much complimentary. i want to thank also the other members of this committee including senator durbin and senator hirono, senator feinstein and the late senator lautenberg for their leadership, really incomparable leadership in this cause and, of course, the many advocates around the country who are championing common sense sensible measures to stop gun violence and domestic violence. the two together are a toxic deadly combination. women are five times as likely -- more likely to die from domestic violence when there are guns in their hous

it's an honor to be here today, senator blumenthal, senator grassley. inez doctor monique chireau.ng the faculty of the duke university medical school and also practicing obstetrician gynecologist and a clinical researcher. s. 1696 could be interpreted to invalidate virtually any type of the current state laws which place restrictions on, religion on abortion but it would endanger health care providers freedoms of conscience but it would prohibit the future enactment of such protective laws. the purpose of the bill as we understood is to protect women's health by ensuring that abortion services will continue to be available. implicit in the stated purpose of the bill are the four following assumption. number one which is that abortion is good and save for women. number two, rig regulation are medically aborted. number three, access to abortion is important to women's health and number four, the state has no interest in protecting unborn children. i will address each of these -- cdc defines an induced abortion as an intervention performed by a licensed clinician that is intended to

senator whitehouse. >> senator blumenthal. thank you very much senator whitehouse for convening this hearing and for yourself spearheading and advocating measures to stop domestic violence. i want to join you in thanking our chairman senator leahy for permitting this hearing to go forward. i also want to particularly salute and thank my colleague senator klobuchar who has been so steadfast and strong in advancing this cause and i am proud to be working with her and to be supporting her bill is a co-sponsor and i think our measures are very much complementary. i want to thank also the other members of this committee including senator durbin and senator hirono, senator feinstein and the late senator lautenberg for their leadership, and comparable leadership in this cause and of course the many advocates around the country who are championing common sense sensible measures to stop the violence and domestic violence. the two together are a toxic, deadly combination. women are five times as likely, more likely to die from domestic

it would protect them from people like me and senator blumenthal and others who are determined to makehem do what they should be doing and will do that no matter how many years it takes. they just pushed us away. they do not want to talk. they do not want to discuss just like they didn't want to react to any of your situations. in modern society, if you are in , -- these are really good people. why wouldn't you do that? that.ly do not understand that sense of frustration, the -- you arementality talking about regulation. we do regulation and we did it on the airlines. when pilots were flying way over the limit of being alert. there was a big plane crash in new york. a lot of people were killed. jets.ngines, not the pilots had gone a long time without sleep so we put on requirements. they have to have before they get on an airplane an eight hour sleep. sleep, they do not sleep but they have to have that time to be able to sleep to prepare and get up from that. government was running roughshod over in industry, that is not true. it is common sense protection of passengers. airlines are t

i welcome senators klobuchar and blumenthal from minnesota and connecticut. i have one procedural announcement which is that we evidently have a vote scheduled at 10:45. so towards the end of that vote i plan to -- and senator hirono from highway', nice to see you. i plan to adjourn the hearing or recess the hearing briefly to allow us to catch the end of one vote, the beginning of the next and reconvene. that will probably take about 15 minutes total, just so you all know. >>> on june 18, 1999 carmen cruz was watching television with her 8-year-old son travis when her ex-boyfriend, frederick escobar broke into her apartment and calmly walked toward her carrying a pillow. when he was just a few feet away from ms. cruz, mr. escobar pointed a gun at her, pointed at her and pulled the trigger. travis watched as his mother collapsed, felled by a bullet shot by his own father. ms. cruz spent hours in surgery while doctors removed the bullet from her abdomen. she was hospitalized for three weeks and wore a colostomy bag for almost two years following the shooting.

. >> senator richard blumenthal who has been active, he was talking about g.m., not you, but he saidt is wrong to put an rbitrary deadline for filing things because the justice department investigation may not be complete by then. would you consider extending the ecember 31 deadline? >> right now i would not. i understand senator blumenthal's view but i take a different view based on my experience with 9/11, which you will recall and bp. if you extend the deadline for processing the claim, you are not helping the claimant. you are not. the claimant, as a rule i find human nature being what it is, claimants will procrastinate. they will wait. if you extend the deadline six months, they will wait six months. many will. it is better to have a deadline and force people to gather together documentation and get the claim in. i will say this. highly unlikely that if somebody waits until the end of december to file a claim. so we're going to process it into 2015. i cannot resolve all the claims. by the time they get the claimant and we process it, i think any investigations being conducted b

blumenthal: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. bhiewmbhiewm bhiewm i ask that the quorum call -- mr. blumenthal: can i stay the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. bliewsm blume i ask that the senate proceed it a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. blume i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to consideration of calendar number 461, senate 517. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 461, s. 517, a bill to promote consumer choice in wireless competition and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. blumenthal: i ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill as amend be read a third time and pass and the motions to reconsider be laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the

chairman. >> thank you, senator blumenthal.or nelson, i think you had a question. >> earlier in my comments i noted the toxicity of the concentrated nicotine in an e-cigarette refill liquid. let me ask the two gentlemen, mr. healy and mr. weiss, in addition to the nicotine what are the other ingredients in the liquid nicotine? >> speaking to the blu product, the five key ingredients are propose lean gliokohl, glycerin and vegetable glycerin, distilled water, nicotine and natural and artificial flavors. and. >> and in our product it's nicotine, probe line gliokohl, glycerin and also flavorings. >> are any of those other than the nicotine harmful substances? >> so we've tested our products, and we support the, the fda's harmful and herbally harmful -- potentially harmful testing for these products, and we're submitting our results to the fda and are very comfortable with the results that they are orders of magnitude safer than combusted cigarettes. >> but as to the substance itself being harmful or not, i didn't understand your a

blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. lest anyone doubt the need for and the urgent justification for individual due process consideration, and the full and adequate screening of these children and a fair judicial proceeding, i would describe just a few stories, and i will ask that my full statement be entered into the record because i know others of our colleagues want to speak tonight. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. girls are fleeing sexual violence at the hands of gangs in honduras and el salvador, just a few examples, ms. l. was raped by more than a dozen gang of eight members in honduras after reporting the gang rape to police were family began to receive death threats. there are only three shelters in honduras for rape survivors but two of them actually operate as brothels. the one remaining shelter declined to take ms. l. because it could not protect her or the other shelter residents from gang violence. she had no choice but to flee honduras. carlita is a 13-yea

press i'm joined now by journalist and author of goliath fear and loathing in greater israel max blumenthal amazing to have you on max. great to be on with you so max start by briefly giving us the most recent updates of what are you hearing happening on the ground or in the last twenty four hours. there are clashes and where the seventeen year old palestinian boy who was found murdered apparently in an x. jewish extremist revenge attack was from it's a refugee camp in occupied east jerusalem and. there are these clashes have been going on for a day this is following israel rampaging through the west bank abducting over five hundred palestinians placing almost two hundred under administrative detention without charges raiding universities killing six people while bombing the gaza strip and exacting casualties there and it's my view that the israeli government knew from the beginning that the three kidnapped and murdered israeli teens were dead they knew who the alleged perpetrators were who the chief suspects were and they may have even had an idea of where the bodies were from the beginnin

." >> i want to turn to max blumenthal.book was pretty much a warning about this rise of a fascist culture. context.in the wider ca >> i guess i hate being vindicated for the facts are produced in this book, that i describe in this book. the facts on the ground inside israeli society. what we saw in haifa, what i understand, these right-wingers who attacked ron and other leftists who are heavily demonized in society, were incited at the highest levels by figures like the foreign minister, that these right-wingers arrived and buses. this was a very organized attack. it is apparent to me extreme right-wing elements have infiltrated the police, which allow them to attack leftists across israel, to attacked antiwar protesters. they infiltrated the much the way golden dawn has done in greece. the current conception of the street level right wing, which kind of acts as a street muscle for net not who -- netanyahu's organization, they're not just settlers or religious national levels. many protested the withdraw from the gaza stri

senator blumenthal? >> thank you, senator, and thank you for championing this bill which i am very, very proud to co-sponsor. thank you for having this hearing which gives us an opportunity to really not only express our support and sympathy but also to make you a part of the crusade for this legislation which will really, in a sense, make something good come of your horrific experiences. and i have a family who is a constituent family in gren niche who suffered very tragically a loss that in some ways is reminiscent of yours, a loss that is still with them. george smith iv vanished, literally disappeared sometime overnight going into july 4th of nine years ago. he remains missing since 2005. there was blood on the ship when it went into a harbor. the crime scene was never secured, let alone adequately investigated. his death remains a mystery today. much to the understandable concernation of his family. his death is with us still in connecticut. it is a grievous reminder that those that suffer from crim

senator blumenthal? >> thank you mr. chairman, and thank you for championing this bill which i am very, very proud to co-sponsor. thank you for having this hearing which gives us an opportunity to really not only express our support and sympathy but also to make you a part of the crusade for this legislation which will really, in a sense, make something good come of your horrific experiences. and i have a family who is a constituent family in greenwich who suffered very tragically a loss that in some ways is reminiscent of yours, a loss that is still with them. george smith iv vanished, literally disappeared sometime overnight going into july 4th of nine years ago. he remains missing since 2005. there was blood on the ship when it went into a harbor. the crime scene was never secured, let alone adequately investigated. his death remains a mystery today. much to the understandable consternation of his family. his death is with us still in connecticut. it is a grievous reminder that the rights of people who suffer as victi

i particularly want to thank senator blumenthal and his staff. they provided some valuable constructive suggestions as to what this protocol should look like. and indirectly i must thank senator blunt indirectly because senator blunt was critically important and very instrumental in the design and administration of the 9/11 victim compensation fund, which proved to be a precedent for much of what is in this protocol. and i want to publicly thank senator blunt for his work many years ago in the drafting of the 9/11 victim compensation fund. i'm accompanied by miss camille biros who over the last 35 years has worked at my side in the drafting, design, and administration of the 9/11 fund, the bp oil spill fund, one fund boston marathon, the virginia tech hokey spirit memorial fund, et cetera. she's also here to answer any questions that the committee might have about the administration of this program. it is a bit premature to be talking about this program because we do not begin receiving claims until august 1st, a few weeks from now. we are right

i'm supportive and a cosponsor of senator blumenthal's bill. let's put that aside for right now and talk about permanent restraining orders that are in the law, the federal law right now. if you get a permanent restraining order and can't get a gun, do you support that? >> yes, i do. >> okay. great. and if you would extend that to dating partners -- see, this is what i want to get a this issue that justice mccaffery and the sheriff did here. a big part of my bill was extending that definition of people who get the restraining orders or get a conviction to be victims who are dating partners. do you support that piece? >> i think after there's a full hearing so that all the evidence comes out. >> there's a full hearing when you get a permanent restraining order. >> then i think that's fair. i don't think it should be retroactive to everybody who's ever been convicted in the past or accepted a guilty plea. i think after a full hearing, then that's reasonable. >> the other thing i was thinking about, and i think the numbers you gave on the reductio

. >> senator blumenthal. >> thank you mr. chairman .i am tremendously respectful, not going as so far as to say i am adoring, but we love you, happy birthday. like all of our children, they are a better generation. i also want to thank your staff for the excellent work they've have done in putting together this are family important hearing. it does have a very haunting feel. the only difference between your testimony today and the testimony of the tobacco executives is that you're not under oath. testimony a sense of denial that i cannot credibly accept. the reason is that it is defied by the numbers. the latest report by the legacy foundation shows that 18 million print and exposed to tv ads within a six-month time frame alone. ads reachhat enjoy 3 million teens. there is a legal principle that people are responsible for the natural and logical effects of what they do, because they know those affects. you know that you are reaching children and teenagers. have seen this movie before. it is called big nicotine comes to children near you

>> i think that's a great question, senator blumenthal. i've been thinking a lot about this knowing the shortage that we have. and also, the organization which may not be very high right now. and it dauns on wns on me that care professionals want to make a difference in the lives of others and they want to be on the cutting edge of making a difference. so if we're going to start, for example, correlates post traumatic stress syndrome with events that occurred during the military experience, that's cutting-edge stuff. that's new stuff. that's stuff that nobody's done before. i mean, the va has had three nobel prize winners. that's the kind of thing that i would think health care professionals want to be a part of. so it would be my intention we really tout that innovate five capability that the va has had for years but bring it out and use that to recruit the very best people who want to make a big difference in other's lives. >> in the west haven facility as i believe i told you when we met, i asked for site specific information relate to

joining me now, senior senator from connecticut, senator richard blumenthal.hanks for being on the program, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> you recently came back from the border region and said this about any changes possibly to the 2008 human trafficking law, quote, i'm very reluctant to change the law because i think the children face death, murder and vicious abuse and persecution if they are returned. those are pretty strong words and says that house republicans however don't believe that, they want to change that law. if you believe it's going to be persecution and murder those kids go back to, that's a pretty hard thing to overcome and compromise on, is it not? >> what i saw and heard, not only by the faces of these children, 6, 8, 10-year-olds but also from the border patrol agents who interviewed them from the advocates and local officials were stories of threat, of vicious persecution, violent abuse, gang war fair, driven by a drug trade that has moved from colombia to those countries in central america. what's needed at the border now, not only more

met and briefed the most visible, i think, one of the most visible members of congress, senator blumenthal of connecticut. extraordinarily helpful. i met him personally with his staff. he had written a letter to the justice department urging compensation. i met with him. he expressed certain views about helping claimants and some suggestions that he hoped i would follow up on which i have, and i welcome any input or think suggestions from members of congress other than senator blumenthal, and i'm glad to meet with them as well. >> ken, phil lebeau with cnbc. quick question on your interaction with mary barra from general motors. how often did you talk with her in setting this up? can you characterize the nature of those conversations? >> i met with mary or spoke with her two or three times. almost all of my conversations involved other people at general motors, but i did meet with mary two or three times. absolutely 100 cooperative. ken, we want to do the right thing. general motors is a great company, we want to do right by those who are innocent victims, and general motors has been extre

i particularly want to thank senator blumenthal and his staff. they provide some valuable constructive suggestions as to what this protocol should look like. and indirectly, i must thank senator blunt, indirectly because senator blunt was critically important and very instrumental in the design and administration of a nine 9/11 victim compensation fund, which proved to be a precedent for much of what is in this protocol. and i want to publicly thank senator blunt for his work many years ago in the drafting of the 9/11 victinine 9/11 victim compn fund. i'm accompanied by ms. camille biros who over the last 35 years has worked at by side in the drafting, design and administration of the 9/11 fund, the bp oil spill fund, one fund the boston marathon, the virginia tech memorial fund, et cetera. she is also here to answer any questions that the committee might have about the administration of this program. it's a bit premature to be talking about this program, because we do not begin receiving claims until august 1. a few weeks from now. we are right

that has angered senators richard blumenthal, democrat from connecticut and tammy baldwin from wisconsinlaw passed that knocks out most restrictions overriding state law on abortions with us now to debate the issue. monica crowley from washington kirsten powers there is a hearing today in congress on this and how do you see it, kirsten? >> well, first of all it's obviously an election year stunt. it probably won't each pass the senate let alone the house. this is something to get the women wind up in the democratic party base who, as you know, have been wind up before this the so-called war on women. this is part of that strategy i also think that this is destructive because it is -- most of these -- most of the laws that i think that they would like to roll back are laws that were put in place to make abortion clinics safe. for example, like the gosnell clinic in pennsylvania. these kind of laws were created to respond to what happened to women. there was a woman who died multiple women who died there. >> they don't want a waiting period. most of the laws center around a waiting period

. >>> joining us for a look at that, senator richard blumenthal, an outspoken critic of president putin. do these sanctions go far enough? >> these sanctions, i think, almost inevitably are going to have to be supplemented. they are going to have to be ratcheted up, particularly in the enforcement. and as you point out, absolutely correctly, some of the major institutions in the rshian economy have been exempted from them. so if putin hears the message this go around, great. if he stands down from his support for the russian supported separatists in the, crane by military action there direct and indirect, so much the better, but there will have to be even strong eer sanctions if russia continues down this very dangerous road and putin is at the center of it. >> how long should congress wait to see if these are working? >> the news back, the reaction, i think, will be pretty soon. we'll have a chance to see whether the russian supported separatists allow investigators at the crash site of the plane that went down, which they have so far refused to do. that's a good sign, as well as wheth

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senator blumenthal will speak after me. senator blumenthal and i sent a letter to target asking them to make this change in policy. i'm glad they did. we're going to have a debate this week, it appears, on a piece of legislation that will allow for individuals to bring more firearms onto public property throughout this country. it's not a debate about bringing firearms into target stores. it's a debate about bringing firearms onto public lands. and, madam president, there is a perfectly legitimate debate to be had about bringing more legal guns onto public property, but there is an even more important debate than that about taking illegal guns off of our city streets. if the united states senate is going to spend a week debating a bill about gun policy, then we should be talking about getting rid of illegal guns. would you be talking about keeping guns out of the hands of -- we should be talking about keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. we should be talking about stopping the epidemic of gun violence across this cou

i so appreciate the opportunity, chairman blumenthal, to testify in strong support of the women's health protection act, and i think ranking member grassley and committee members for this opportunity today. i also want to thank my senator tammy baldwin who we are very proud of in wisconsin were leading the way in cosponsoring this important bill. i'm also the former public policy director for planned parenthood of wisconsin. i have over a decade of monitoring, advocating for, and attempting to get past good public policy on reproductive health care. there is a consensus in wisconsin about what wisconsinites want the state legislature to focus on. it is not abortion restrictions. it is on the critical economic issues that face our state. we have a stagnant economy in wisconsin. we have stagnant wages. working families are struggling. those are the issues that wisconsinites want the state legislature to focus on, but, unfortunately, that is not been the focus over the last three years and wisconsin has become one of the many battleground states where fights over woman's ability to access a

suppose senator blumenthal -- >> senator blumenthal? chairman, formr. holding this important panel.each of you has been extraordinarily insightful, and that is based in part on research that you bring to this to be and just to add chairman from question -- money, money, money is often very importance. it is also how the money is spent. and also, what can be done to prevent cet? one of the areas as education. the corey stringer institute at the university of connecticut, as you know, has released nine recommendations for lessening incidents and reducing long-term effects of dramatic rain injury --traumatic brain injury, and the experience of the states in adopting those recommendations is very, very mixed. connecticut has implemented only for. most states have implemented even fewer of them. there is a lot of work to be done in educating parents, trainers, but also public officials, as to what can be done. you know, one of the areas of meury that was unknown to concerns respect riding -- horseback riding, which is in fact the leading cause of sports ,elated traumatic brain injury of

>> i think probably one of the best example examples would be e sponsor of the bill, jim and blumenthal was asked if the bill would ban abortions it talks about life were held and he said the health make no distinction. the exception makes no distinction between physical or psychological health. so it would be very difficult and impossible under the bill to ban abortions for help if psychology and psychological health is going to be -- >> there are 13 states -- thank you -- there are 13 states that ban elective abortions after 13 weeks except for rape and incest. would this go down? >> you said what. >> do you agree? >> like the ninth circuit did with arizona's 20 week then yes it would be unconstitutional and this bill tracks the u.s. constitution -- >> they have waiting periods before the abortion is performed. performed. would this bill strikes a down? >> is it wit >> is it with sea view in p. action in any way it would be struck down. down. stack ms. tobias, do you agree with that? >> it depends on what the court would look at. -- >> so you don't know how that works? >> yes i do. th

you think that appeals to me or senator blumenthal to wish him happy birthday? >> he's an adult smoker. we are trying to appeal to adult smokers. >> he's an actor in kid movies. the third factor is a flavoring issue. >> i don't understand why when regular cigarettes, they can't have flavors. is that correct? i would ask you, why were they banned from having flavors? >> they were banned because congress determined after substantial evidence that they mostly appeal to young people. >> exactly. >> i don't understand why you couldn't have your product without flavors. mr. weiss? >> for us, we view, what is going to help us accomplish our mission. because we are only interested in adult users, we have not obtained cigarettes that have flavors. we conducted research to ensure that to the greatest degree possible we would not appeal to youth with the flavors we provide. we try to understand using our product to appealing to adult smokers without appealing to minors. we would be happy to submit for the record, that research. the witness is willing to answer questions to

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blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. i ask that the quorum call be lifted. officer sphe without objection. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. while presiding for a couple of hours just now, i listened to some really very powerful and eloquent debate organized by the presiding officer, and i thaipg him for doing so, regarding the migrant unaccompanied children who are coming across our bord border. those remarks moved and inspired me, and they were followed afterward by an effort by senators shaheen and others to bring to the floor a measure on energy efficiency. the connection between the two may not seem immediately apparent, but in fact i was struck by the irony of an effort by some of our colleagues to eliminate and repeal, in effect, a measure called the trafficking victims protection reauthorization act of 2008. it is actually named the wilberforce trafficking victims protection reauthorization act of 2008, very symbolically and significantly after a leader who sought to abolish the slave trade. and our colle

senator blumenthal. >> thank you, mr. chairman. you can have my cell phone number for what it's worth. it's not worth as much as senator rockefeller's, i think in thank you for being here and thanks for answering all our questions as well as you have come and forthrightly and candidly. in my initial statement i raised the specter of the va as comparable to a bankrupt corporation, unlike a lot of bankrupt corporations, or at least corporations that fold, the va has a lot of assets. one of its very distinct asset is its very dedicated people. it's trained professionals who do such great work day in and day out regardless of the headlines in the paper and the disparagement that they may see in the congress. and we see it in connecticut. we have a lot of great doctors and medical care in connecticut. most especially at the west haven, va facility which ours are main hospital. my question is what can we do to attract more of those trained professionals to the va facility in connecticut and others around the country which really provide