mainly by republicans in the house and senate, for the ouster of veterans affairs secretary eric k. shinseki or the ill-advised legislation aimed at v.a. workers." let me make this point. i happen to think that the bill that was passed in the house yesterday has many american provisions, which i happen to agree with. but as the senator from florida knows, we have not held a hearing on this legislation. and some of us are old-fashioned enough to know that maybe folks in the senate might want to know what is in the bill before we voted on it. the senator from florida is right. it passed with very strong support in the house, and in my view, a similar bill containing some of the salient provisions in the house will pass the senate. but it is important that that bill be discussed. and i will tell you, madam president, that one of the concerns that i have is i do not want to see the v.a. politicized. it is one thing to say -- which i agree with -- that if a hospital administrator is incompetent, the secretary should be able to get rid of that administrator without a whole lot of paperwork. i agre

wyckoff will discuss embattled veterans affairs secretary eric chin says -- air missions of the -- eric k. shinseki the controversy currently on the hill. today in theed first legislative response since edward snowden started leaking and -- nsa documents about a year ago. critics say the changes don't go far enough. peter cook is live on capitol hill. good afternoon. >> an important moment here on the floor of the house of representatives today. response,concrete coming as you said, since about about over the revelation the u.s. spying techniques. the majority overwhelmingly voted in favor of this bill. both democrats and republicans were backing this bill. but there were questions about some of the wording. for the first time, it bars the government from collecting american phone records and old collection of any records whatsoever. instead it asks the phone companies to retain that data and the government can still query that data under court order if it expects someone is tied to terrorism. -- suspects someone is tied to terrorism. but it has to get a court order. there's also greater transparen

week, eric k. shinseki -- while allegations on backlogs were investigated. jeff miller called an emergency departmentissue the a subpoena. this is 10 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. i would like to take care of one item of business this morning. hearing a motion for the issuance of a subpoena to the department of veterans affairs to produce emails and other written correspondent related into the investigation of the phoenix v.a. medical center. it's unfortunate that we have to come to this decision, but we did not do this without some substantial justification. the last few weeks have been a model of v.a. stonewalling which precipitated the need for this subpoena. first on april 24 our staff was briefed and informed on the existence of an alternate wait list and how that list was subsequently destroyed. we made follow-up phone calls to va-ocla beginning on the 28th asking for additional information about the list. however we didn't get a response back on the 28th so we called back on the 29th and got no response on the 29th. so we called again on april

army general eric k. shinseki and the secretary of veterans affairs to the first panel. as i think most people know, secretary shinseki is a graduate of west point, served as the chief of staff of the army from 1999-2003. he retired from active duty in 2003 after nearly a 40 year career in the u.s. army. following the september in love with, 2001, terrorist attacks against the couch, secretary shinseki led the army during operation enduring freedom and iraqi freedom. he praises serve simultaneously as commander in general, nice its army europe, seventh army, commanding general nato-led forces central europe and command of the nato-led stabilization force bosnia-herzegovina. and i want to also note a few of the many wars that secretary shinseki received during his -- awards. the legion of merit with oak leaf clusters, the barnstormed medal with the device with two oak leaf clusters and the purple heart with oak leaf clusters. mr. secretary, thank you very much for being with us today. secretary shinseki is accompanied by dr. robert petzel who's the undersecretary for healt

mainly by republicans in the house and senate, for the ouster of veterans affairs secretary eric k. shinseki or the ill-advised legislation aimed at v.a. workers." let me make this point. i happen to think that the bill that was passed in the house yesterday has many american provisions, which i happen to agree with. but as the senator from florida knows, we have not held a hearing on this legislation. and some of us are old-fashioned enough to know that maybe folks in the senate might want to know what is in the bill before we voted on it. the senator from florida is right. it passed with very strong support in the house, and in my view, a similar bill containing some of the salient provisions in the house will pass the senate. but it is important that that bill be discussed. and i will tell you, madam president, that one of the concerns that i have is i do not want to see the v.a. politicized. it is one thing to say -- which i agree with -- that if a hospital administrator is incompetent, the secretary should be able to get rid of that administrator without a whole lot of paperwork. i agre

president obama is scheduled to meet with the veteran affairs secretary eric k. shinseki this morning at 10:00 a.m. and the white house has announced the president will deliver a statement to the press and we are covering that will bring you those remarks on c-span as soon as the house goes into recess later this morning. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] speaker's rooms, washington, d.c., may 21, 2014, i hereby appoint the honorable david w. jolly to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will learnt -- alternate redskin nation between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to ive minutes, but in no event shall debate continue

president obama is scheduled to meet with the veteran affairs secretary eric k. shinseki morning at 10:00 a.m. and the white house has announced the president will deliver a statement to the press and we are covering that will bring you those remarks on c-span as soon as the house goes into recess later this morning. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] speaker's rooms, washington, d.c., may 21, 2014, i hereby appoint the honorable david w. jolly to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed,

k-cup purchase with coupon. staples. make more happen. >>> breaking news, we now know some of what will be revealed tomorrow when eric shinseki goes to after about va misconduct including failures that may have led to the deaths of millions. fox news has a prepared statement of the inspector general whose office is in charge of investigating the va and then about an hour ago, we laer learned the white house has a top aid to get involve in fixing the va's issues. ed henry live on the front lawn of the white house with some late breaking news tonight. good evening, ed. >> that's right. good to see you, march that the white house is scrambling late tonight to stay ahead of the scandal and shows secretary shinseki for the first grilling on this scandal is on shakier ground than we thought. rob neighbors, a top aid to the president, deputy chief of staff, the son of an army veteran will be charged of overseeing the review of what went wrong and for good reason because today the scandal got wider. it reached the home state of illinois, cbs news reporting there is a va hospital there where there was several secret waiting lists to hide the fact v

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