this bill would re-authorize the homeless veterans' re-integration program known as the hvrp and homeless women's veterans and children reintegration grant program, through fiscal year 2022. these are grant programs managed by u.s. department of labor and veterans employment and training services. grants are made generally to nonprofit community-based organizations to fund efforts to train and place homeless veterans into jobs. this has been a highly successful program that has put homeless veterans back on the path to self-reliance and sustainability and is worthy of congress' continued support and funding. this bill would also clarify that homeless veterans who are eligible for other federally funded homeless veteran programs are also eligible to receive training and employment services provided by grantees through hvrp and hvrpw. i believe that expanding eligibility for hvrp and hvrpw will provide participants in these programs better access to job training programs that can help homeless veterans on their path to sustainable employment and positive outcomes. this expansion would also

>> we are very supportive of program integrity. we think reporting requirements would provide greater transparency. in thinking about responsible reporting we need to weigh that against the potential provider buffered. . we also think responsive reporting is most valuable if fied to clear program goals. >> okay. what would be the best metric to determine which hospitals are good program stewards? >> i wouldn't be the person to opine on that. just from a program integrity perspective, we find the most value in reporting when it's tied to clear program goals and rules. as we've noted already this program lacks some clarity in the intent of the program. >> dr. draper, what a good metric? >> can you remember the program does not require any reporting of how revenues are spent. and i think anything that enhances the transparency of the program i think it would, you know, enhance the integrity of the program. i also think that's tied to the issue about what is the real intent of the program. i think there's some ambiguity what is the actu

but unfortunately president trump seems entirely interested in the actual oversight program integrity. he has continued to sabotage efforts to ensure drug companies play by these rules. the affordable care act gave the health resources and services administration new authorities to keep the 340b program accountable. after the inspector general for the department of health and human services found many drug companies, they were overcharging. they drafted a rule to make sure companies were given the discounts required by the 340b program. the obama administration finalized that rule, but the trump administration has delayed implementations over and over. the most recent delay came last week, the same week he gave a speech, claiming he was getting tough on drug companies. when he attempted to provide more clarity for the program through the so-called mega guidance. instead of improving that draft, working with stakeholders to approve that path forward. the trump administration took a giant step back and withdrew that guidance, abandoning the efforts completely. they haven't just backed a

and anything program, i think it would, you know, enhance the integrity of the program. and i also think that's tied to the issue the program? i think there's ambiguity around what is the actual intent of the program. a lot of people think it's a program for low income people. indirectly they may benefit. >> okay, thank you. thanks senator mu >> thank you mr. chairman. according to the main hospitals. 25 maine hospitals qualified for the 340b drug discount program. and they receive a collective benefit estimated to $105 million a year. 14 of those 25 hospitals all ready have negative operating margins. for some of the other 340b hospitals, with positive operating margins, the value of the program represents the difference between a positive operating margin and a negative one. at the same time, part of what is driving the narrow hospital margins and losses in maine is the growth in pharmaceutical spending. maine hospitals have experienced a 30% increase in drug spending over the past four years. i wanted to give you that background because the hospital association in mai

you mean business and then implement sanctions when you see them he says that his together for integrity program a new program is supposed to ease whistleblowers actions and then that's to be without compromise sanctioned when there's something discovered ok that sounds good but it sounds like he's taking on quite a lot has he has he bitten off more than he can chew. probably but it's worth a try and he doesn't have a choice involves wagon doesn't doesn't have a choice he has experience in the company yet he's relatively new but you're right he also has the commercial question ahead of him how to improve margins he has e-cards and self driving cars it's a huge task probably one of the most if not the most difficult in german industry at the moment you had a family but in frank. now here's a conference call that backfired big time electric comic a tesla continues to burn through more cash than its earning c.e.o. even musk has done little to ease investors fear is instead during a conference call he refused to answer analysts questions calling them so dry and so not cool tesla's share price plunge

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in additional 362 million that be provided through a program integrity cap adjustment. while the agency's previous adjustment for program integrity cap adjustment were not enacted, i look forward to discussing the agency's resource meets. it is intended to administer the tax system to generate more than 3 trillion in revenue to fund government programs, protect taxpayer records and strengthen tax compliance. tax compliance is critical. the government accountability office has identified the tax fraud is a high risk area. in 2016 the irs estimated that the average gross tax gap of taxes owed and paid on time was $458 billion from tax years 2008 2010. i look forward to hearing your strategy for closing the tax gap and we stand wet test stand ready to work with you on solutions. i will turn to my colleagues for the opening statement. >> thank you for completing the -- convening the hearing. to come before the subcommittee and hope we can find common ground and work together. i would like to welcome set --et -- secretary under chin secretary steven mnuchin, thank you for joi

a better path would seem to me to be invest in program integrity activities. if i understood your testimony right, the tax gap, taxes that are owed but not paid, it's about 400 billion dd. if the irs invested $15 billion in program integrity, it would recoup in digsal revenue. >> yes, sir. >> so that's roughly 4-1 return on investment. you've got two options. lay people off and cut services so more americans trying to seek taxpayer assistance are confused or invest in making sure tax cheats pay their taxes. seems to me there is an obvious alternative and much better choice. the request from the irs also requested a program integrity cap adjustment, which is sensible but something that the irs has requested year after year after year. the budget committee has never provided appropriate ors with that adjustment. in fact i don't believe there is a budget committee vehicle that would allow that this year. so let me just suggest that perhaps a better approach is to request funding for program integrity activities, in other words, finding people who are cheating on t

we will enhance our internal integrity programs and pursue transparency and professionalism measures to increase and maintain the trust of the public we are sworn to serve. but even as we continue to enhance border security at and between ports of entry, increasing our effectiveness at identifying and interdicting threats, apprehensions of those crossing our border illegally or who are determined to be inadmissible at ports of entry continue to rise. seizures of illicit, hard narcotics are also increasing across all categories, both at and between ports of entry, especially methamphetamine and synthetic opioids like fentanyl. as we strengthen our screening and vetting across multiple agencies to identify potential threats before they enter the united states, we continue to face a multifaceted and dispersed terrorist adversary. we need to continue to invest in and deploy critical capabilities to prevent and interdict illegal crossings between ports of entry. a modern border wall system, situational awareness sensors, airborne and fixed, mission readiness. our border patrol agents, pil

auxiliary projects raises the question of whether the federal writers project could create an integrated program that could thoroughly incorporate african-americans and meet the expectation of african-american intellectuals. although brown initially criticized the separateness in writing by black historians, he eventually came to direct this kind of scholarship. for lack of a better alternative. despite the obstacles he faced, however, this had a lasting effect building the foundations of social history by privileging the expenses of marginalized groups. as americans entered world war ii, state administrators sought to integrate black americans into the cultural apparatus as they had in the 1930s. yet the treatment of racial , issues would unfold under much tighter parameters. wartime cultural officials were treated -- were created with explicit goals. some war officials understood and sympathized the african-american believe that the war against fascism was also a war against american racism. still, cultural administrators abided by the official line that the war was not a testing ground for so

haspel said today the president -- if the president asked her to do anything -- to restart the integration programcriticized for she would not do that. is that something the president would ever ask? >> i'm not aware of any requests by the president to the past cia director or what we hope to be the new cia director very soon. >> may i ask you one more question. just on a separate subject, following up on the iran announcement from the president, the europeans are working hard now to keep that deal alive, despite the united states being pulled out. can you say, will the white house ensure that european companies who trade with iran will not suffer the sanctions that the united states is going to put back on? >> the sanctions that were in place prior to the deal will go back into place. but for the specifics, i know there is a winddown period for specifics on any particular company, i would refer you to the department of treasury. >> sayra, the president suggestd stripping journalists from credentials and that is a line you are willing to cross. >> i'm standing up in front of you taking your questi

you mean business and then implement sanctions when you see them he says that his together for integrity program a new program is supposed to ease whistleblowers actions and then that's to be. compromised sanctioned when there's something discovered ok that sounds good but it sounds like he's taking on quite a lot has he has he bitten off more than he can chew. probably but it's worth a try and he doesn't have a choice involves wagon does it doesn't have a choice he has experience in the company yet he's relatively new but you're right he also has the commercial question ahead of him how to improve margins e-cards and self driving cars it's a huge task probably one of the most if not the most difficult in german industry at the moment you had a family in frankfurt. now here's a conference call that back fired big time while electric come a contest that continues to burn through more cash than its earning c.e.o. we don't mosque has done little to ease investors fear is instead during a conference call he refused to answer analysts questions calling them so dry and so did not cool as the share pri

commissioner kim in particular had expressed frustration that the staff had not considered integrating the program with clipper, we'll continue to follow up on those concerns as well. our horizon work, this is mtc planning work and it sets up the next bay area, continues at the regional level. the region is doing what we had done in the connectsf program, looking at scenarios. demographic shifts and making sure that the future projects that we invest in can perform under any of those given the uncertainty we face. there will be a series of policy papers and we'll keep you posted on those. we've been collaborating with mta and planning department on connectsf work that will feed into the horizon work in the plan bay area. we'll keep you posted on the transit pieces and the streets and freeway planning we're doing for future planned areas investment strategies. the staff also have been preventing at various conferences, pricing and demand management. this is becoming a much greater topic nationally as well given that the infrastructure is mature, in our state, built in the 50s and we're in the manag

objectives, and i've already had several questions here today about what's happening with the integration pilot program, you know. who won, you know. who has been selected, and so as we all know that is a compete difficult activity going on where communities, and this is the important thing. state, local and tribal communities, not amazon, google, sorry, you know. not dji. i saw dji over here, but, you know, a city, a county, a state is coming in and applying to do operations. well, what's that focus? it goes back to what i was talking about. we're integrating operations into communities, and the we're having to do that at the very local level. that's probably on our horizon, and that's one of the biggest challenges that we have going forward. public acceptance is the challenge for the industry and the government. how do we truly integrate into these communities is really what's on our horizon here going into this coming here and the next couple of years. we've in essence been segregated. airports have been segregated operations. i know we have issues with communities, and what's so new? we have airpor

consumer base from all over the city and a partnership with the golden gate regional center for integration of programs for people with developmental disabilities. and the richmond center has cantonese and russian translators on staff and as well as the volunteer pool that can translate korean. and the center additionally has french. thanks for your consideration. >> thank you. any comments or questions for rick? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, calling the question. all in favor. any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item ii, requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with independent living resource center of san francisco for the provision of community services for seniors and adults with disabilities during the period of july 1, 2018, through june 30, 2020, in the amount of $231,872 plus a 10% contingency for a total amount not to exceed $25a,059. (please stand by). . ease stand by). >> hearing none, call the question. all in favor? any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item jj, requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with k

that authority probably the single biggest countervailing pressure we have is of course integrity and ensuring program integrity through telehealth that we don't see abuse. i think so many of the rules that we have are some bad provider did something so you put a rule in place. obviously we have to do it with respect to the taxpayer program integrity, but i would want to be very forward leaning here on implementing any authority to, again, penny wise, pound foolish. use telehealth, expand the network of providers, expand the reach to communities, really help in rural and frontier communities and lower the cost of care. i'm with you on this one. >> thank you. i think reaching veterans, reaching people in rural communities, helping with the opioid crisis, asthma, psychiatric, psychological treatment, all of it can be done through telehealth and i think the transformation in our society is that if ten years ago you were instructed to interact with your clinician through a device you would be irritated and now there is a category of clients or patients who if they are not able to interact with their clini

i'm not sure what the question is but any expansion of the medicare program he to make sure the integrity of the original medicare program is left intact. this is about making sure that our seniors -- not only our seniors have access to affordable health care, even expanded health care -- but making sure that people who are not necessarily in the age category yet to get medicare have health care, too. we have a lot of people in communities across the country that are 45, 50 years old i don't have access to health care , or any kind of quality health care. affordable care act, we try to make sure that everybody has coverage. republicans have repealed that. we can do this as a country, cover everybody was good, quality, affordable health care. we can do this. other countries do it. we can do it in maybe a uniquely american way, but there is no way in this country with the kind of wealth we have, that people should not be getting the whole care they deserve. host: did not want you to go without asking you about your work on the appropriations committee. the ranking member that oversees fundi

an expansion of the medicare program needs to make sure the integrity of the original medicare medicare program is left intact. this is about making sure our seniors have access to affordable healthcare and even expanded healthcare. making sure that people who are not in the age category to get medicare have healthcare two. we have a lot of people in communities across the country who are 45 - 55 years old without access to healthcare, or quality healthcare. we tried with the affordable healthcare to make sure everybody has coverage. we can do this as a country. we can cover everybody with good quality, affordable healthcare, we can do this. other countries do it, we can do it in a uniquely american way. there is no way in this country with the kind of wealth we have that people should not get the kind of healt healthcare they d. >> host: i want to test but you work on the appropriations committee. your the ranking member on the legislative branch committee that oversees funding for congress. what is a cost nearly $5 billion. to keep congress running? >> guest: our bill covers a lot. we

we have an o obligation on the committee and as members of congress to make sure that the integrity ofe the program and also its viability goes beyond the 75 year requirement that we are sworn to serve. with that, i yield back and look forward to the questions and look forward to asking questions and hearing from our distinguished panel. >> thank you for your comments. as it was discussed, any members are welcome to submit a statement for the record. before we move on to the testimony, i want to remind our witnesses to please limit your oral statements to five minutes. however, without objection all of the written testimony will be made a part of the hearing record. we have seven witnesses today. seated at the table or nancy berryhill for acting commissioner of the social security administration, elizabeth curda, director of education workforce and income security for government accountability office, samuel lester can privacy counsel electronic privacy information center, paul rosenzweig -- >> it's rosenzweig. >> thank you. senior fellow at the art history institute, the senior vice president and

we have an obligation on this committee and as members of congress to make sure that the integrity of the program and also its viability goes beyond the 75 year requirement that we are sworn to serve, and with that, mr. chairman, i yield back and look forward to the hearing from to our dispute was panel. comments.ou for your as is customary, any member is welcome to submit a statement for the record, and before we move on to testimony, i want to remind our witnesses to please limit your oral statements to five minutes. , all of thection rich in testimony will be made part of the hearing record. we have seven witnesses today seated at the table. , acting commissioner of the social security administration, and incomedirector security for government accountability office, samuel lester, consumer privacy counsel , electronic privacy information pauer, toll roads and we -- l -- that's not right. rozenswie. >> steve groman, senior vice president and chief technology officer of mcafee. ,eremy grant, coordinator better identity coalition. james lewis, senior vice policynt, technology program center for s

we have an obligation on this committee and as members of congress to make sure that the integrity of the program and, also, the viability goes beyond the 75 year requirement that we are sworn to serve. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back and look forward to the questions and to what we're going to look forward to asking questions and hearing from our distinguished panel. >> thank you for your comments. as custom mare, any member is welcome to submit a statement for the record. before we move on to testimony, i want to remind our witnesses to please limit your oral statements to five minutes. however, without objection, all of the written testimony will be made a part of the hearing record. we have seven witnesses today. seated at the table are nancy berryhill. elizabeth curda, paul rosenzweig. senior fellow institute. steve grobman senior vice president and chief technology officer at mcafee. james lewis senior vice president and director center for strategic and international studies. acting commissioner berryhill, please begin your testimony. >> chairman johnson, ranking member larson, and m

if i were to be given the authority probably the single biggest pressure we have is integrity and ensuring programintegrity through telehealth so we don't see abuse. some rules we have a some bad provider did some so you put a rule in place. we need to do it with respect to the taxpayer but, i would want to be forward leaning on implementing authority. use telehealth, expand the network of providers really help rule in frontier communities and lower care. i'm with you on this one. >> reaching veterans in rural communities, helping with the opiate crisis, asthma, psychiatric and psychological treatment, all of it can be done through telehealth. the transformation in our society is that if ten years ago you are instructed to interact with your clinician through a device you'd be irritated. now there's a category of clients or patients who they're not able to interact with them through a device there irritated. this is transformational. on ask another question, clearly your philosophy, not sure it's fair to call federalism but you want maximum flexibility to the states and interpreting statues and wh