dr. jesse. recent work by the gao uncovered some disturbing information. it is unacceptable that our veterans, especially our most barbel of veterans, under the department's supervision cannot be kept safe. i am very concerned the va failed to inform leadership about these allegations. i want to ask you today what is going on out there and what the va is doing to adjust the situation. >> va does take patient and employee safety barry serious. -- very serious. the secretary has possibly reminded us that we have responsibilities to accomplish the mission and take care of the people. much of the secretary's agenda has centered around the safety of those veterans. one of the first things he did was to stand up the office of the security and procurement under the assistant secretary, which includes operational lysing the integrated -- operationalizing the integrated system. it provides the secretary frequent briefings on what is going on. we have taken these allegations very seriously. we investigat

dr. jesse, i understand from my staff that her testimony was due in large part because omb and recognize that if you're responsible for how about, but i do want to emphasize for everyone who comes before this committee that we do require testimony to be with the 48 hours before a scheduled hearing because our members need time to adequately prepare for the hearing and positions of the respect due properly presented for this committee. i will be following up to make sure they understand delays in testimony before this committee to accept the ball. we will be talking to omb. i want an opportunity on the bill he has before returned to her panel. [inaudible] >> thank you for having me and i particularly want to thank you, senator murray and i've introduce a bill, s. one years exterior color be honoring all veterans that and s. 1147, the chiropractic care available for all veterans act, which very much followed the provided other colleagues in the senate who started and carry forward this effort wit

reverend dr. jesse jackson. [applause] i don't know if our distinguished leader dr. ron daniels are arranged this with of "the new york times" but ex-president jimmy carter published on the editorial page a column entitled call off the global drug war. how many people have seen this in today's paper? quite a few. it's a very instructive because more and more people are realizing that our incarceration of our own citizens exceeds that rate of more than any other country on earth. we all know that. i think it's accurate to say that there are more black young men in prison than there are in college. so i have a very serious problem, and this is what we are here to talk about today. one of the things i want to do is connect all of the organization's that have been seriously working on this problem starting with the institute that brings us here today but rainbow push starts its conference in chicago tomorrow. i'm going there. can i get about 20% of you to go there with me to chicago? going to chicago? [laughter] you can go to the delta air lines, american and tell them i

reverend dr. jesse lewis jackson. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] now i don't know if our distinguished leaders dr. ron daniels ranged this with "the new york times". but ex-president jimmy carter published on the editorial page a column entitled call off the global drug war. how many people have seen this in today's paper. quite a few. and it's very instructive. because more and more people are realizing that our encars ration of our own citizens exceeds the rate of more than any other country on earth. we all know that. i think it's accurate to say there are more black young men in prison than there are in college. it's been true for over 20 years i've been advised. so we have a more serious problem. this is what we're here to talk about today. one of the things i want to do is connect all of the organizations that have been seriously working on that problem. starting with the institute that brings us here today. but rainbow push starts it's conference in chicago tomorrow i'm going there. can i get about