dr. maureen mccarthy. deputy chief of patient care services for the veterans health administration and miss lorraine landsfree, deputy chief information officer for product development of va's office of information technology. they are accompanied by dr. mary lawrence, deputy director of the vision center of excellence and mr. pat sheehan, director of va's 508 compliance office. i think we'll continue the -- for committee members, we'll continue the process of stating your name so those that 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 a part of the hearing record and you're now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. good morning chairman coffman, ranking member kirkpatrick and members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to discuss the department of veterans affairs contributions to the vision center of excellence and the care and services provided to veterans with visual impairme

dr. mccarthy speaking again. i can talk about training of images or talk about a typical eye doctor appointments, there are other non physician people involved, that might have visual acuity or checking -- >> thing is that physicians typically do. not always concerned about quality of care when physicians are not doing the things they are supposed to do. i guess i am out of time. we can further that later. >> the state of california. >> thank you, mr. chairman. where is your center located? physically? >> i want to refer to dr. lyons. the vision center of excellence has two locations in the national capital region, our headquarters at walter reed national medical center in bethesda and we have an office in crystal city, arlington. we also have a small office at the medical center in tacoma, washington. >> walter reed is under the dod but nevertheless the veteran center is located at walter reed, is that right? >> dr. mccarthy again. the vision center is a joint effort between the dod and va. the centers of excell

dr. jon lapook. house republicans today elected kevin mccarthy of california as the new majority leader, succeeding eric cantor. cantor resigned this post after his primary defeat in virginia. the republicans also elected steve scalise of louisiana to succeed mccarthy as majority whip. late last night, texas governor rick perry authorized spending an extra $1.3 million a week on border security. texas has been facing a surge of illegal immigrants. state and local authorities say the federal government is not doing enough to help. here's anna werner. >> reporter: this is video of illegal immigrants caught by police in the small town of george west, texas. officers capture dozens here each month. rey garcia is the police chief. how many people would you guess are getting through that you don't have an opportunity to catch? >> we only catch a fraction of them. they know the schedule of the police officers, of the different police departments. >> reporter: garcia told us there's been a 400% increase in illegal immigrants caught here. police don't have the resources to hold them for long. federal agents are

dr. segal is reporting for duty coming up. >> kevin mccarthy went all the way to hong kong to see the newr cash. he's here in the next hour. a a the lowest price book any flight or hotel and if you find it for less, we'll match it and give you 50 dollars off your next trip expedia, find yours >>> the first case of swine flu now confirmed among the thousands of illegal children crossing into the united states at the texas-mexico border. the sick child is one of hundreds staying at lackland air force base. what new threat does this pose to us and what are health officials doing about it? dr. mark siegle, author of swine flu, the new pandemic, joins us now to discuss. good morning. >> good morning. >> so this is one case that is now really cause ago ton of concern given the situation of tens of thousands of kids moving through this nation illegally. what are we looking at here with h1n1? >> it's indicative of the fact that these children and the people coming in can't be screened. this child had a fever for several days and nobody knew about it and nobody checked him. so now the flu spreads