mr. burke: making sure as we create new reports for managers to manage both workload and employee performance that we bring them together, get on the same page and provide some consistency that wasn't there prior to n.w.q. >> thank you for that. in terms of vacancies, mr. murphy, did i understand you to say we're losing -- we lose approximately 40 employees per pay period? mr. murphy: that's correct. prior to the hiring freeze we lost between 55 and 61 per pay period. there were a good percentage moving to other agencies. that number would reduce down to 40. that would leave the federal government. ms. brownley: is it advancement or is it they're leaving? mr. murphy: this is not turnover, moving to another job. these are people leaving the agency and that's actually a very low number. i come from a sector where we ran 25%, 28%. we typically run in the low single digits percentage as an agency. so 40% with a population base of 22,000, that's just normal retirements and i've take -- and have take

mr. burke: yes, sir. mr. burkman: we were told that the system needed to be replaced or updated. ability to bethe compatible with or replaced with new management systems going forward? mr. burke: when we designed and developed the national work you, it was under the office -- auspices of the bms. . we do go through the process for any enhancements, new features, etc.. right now we are connected vbms and we are operate. on vbms to you are connected? >> i am sure as part of our doing that it would be incorporated. we have to integrate nwq with vbms.ng if we replace >> why does it take one year for adequacy standards? why so long? >> i will start with that one. we went for the partial rollout. we started it in maine. we did not completed until summer. we ran it from somewhere up until two months ago and looked at live production data using 100% of the population in presented standards to the union. they go live on march one. in the past we have used sampling of a couple people but this time we use

that's why the mr burke out has called it right today.he commons is a powerfulfigure right today. the speaker of the commons is a powerful figure who right today. the speaker of the commons is a powerfulfigure who has a say in who addresses mps. he is independent of party politics and is supposed to represent the whole house. tonight it's clear that some are unhappy with his outburst. i think the speaker should be neutral. to express political opinions devalues this great office, is insulting to president tromp. the speaker should keep itself both all of that. that's to be regretted. but it isa of that. that's to be regretted. but it is a symptom of the controversy around this visit. the prime minister has been treading forge a close partnership with the president in washington, saying the government should engage constructively with his administration. whilst theresa may has lost a charm offensive towards president trump, john bercow has suggested he is unfit to come here and speak to mps and peers. many agree with him, saying he is simp

mr. ronald burke, the assistant deputy undersecretary for field operations. i want to remind the witnesses that your completed written statement will be entered into the hearing record. mr. murphy, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> good morning, chairman. ranking member esty and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the implementation and progress related to v.a.'s national work queue. the nwq is a workload prioritization and distribution tool designed to match claims assignment capabilities with v.a. capacity regardless of geographical boundaries. this tool provides the means necessary to ensure veterans receive a more timely decision on their disability claim. the nwq uses sophisticated system capabilities to uniformly prioritize v.a.'s electronic claim inventory and allow for the collection of enhanced date to on processing efficiencies, areas for quality improvement and issues impacting processing capabilities. this new environment allows v.a. the flexibility to move claims to locations around the country that have th

mr. ronald burke, assistant secretary, undersecretary field operations. into the be entered hearing record. mr. murphy, you are recognized for five minutes. >> good morning. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the implementation of the the aelated to workload. it is designed to match claims and capabilities with me a capacity regardless of geographical boundary. this provides the means necessary to make sure veterans receive a more timely decision. it uses sophisticated capabilities for electronic claim inventory and models for -- and allows for efficiency and areas for improvement and this new environment allows the va the capability to move claims around the country and has the capacity to take the next step and assign work to the right person in each facility. one of the principals is doing -- is to ensure veterans are treated in goalie regardless to where they live. in 2015, in many instances the timeliness of the decision was impacted based solely on the state of which the veteran received lived. some took more than 213 days, double the time of o

yesterday in the commons, mr burke broke said he was opposed to the president speaking.s morning. he told me that while he maintained his view on the issue, he was genuinely sorry for failing to consult with me. obviously i accepted that apology. my view is that i will keep an open mind and consider any request from mrtrump to mind and consider any request from mr trump to address parliament if and when it is made. i do not intend to argue the case for or against mr trump's visit. that is not my role as speaker. but allow me to say that i have spent the last 30 years campaigning against prejudice and discrimination, particularly forthe rights of the lb gt people and those with hiv aids. i would however like to make two further comments entirely on process. first, there will be other leaders coming to this country who may also be controversial. the procedure as it stands means that either mr speaker or myself can effectively veto any proposal for a visiting leader to address parliament, at least as far as westminster hall is concerned. i think it is for parliament to cons

we've heard a lot about maybe part of any infrastructure plan that really does come to fruition, mr. burked aecom play in such a thing? do you operate under any of these assets already that we've looked at? >> we are the largest engineering firm in the world in transportation, which is the prime beneficiary of p3 assets. so we have designed, built and invested in a number of these assets here in the united states and around the world. so it is something that is very important to us. and we would be a significant player in that when it does come to fruition. and i'm very confident that it will. it's worked around the world. the rest of the world has a long history of p3 assets. here in the u.s. we're only investing 1% of all of our infrastructure is done through the p3 model, we have a lot of room for expansion of the p3 model here in the united states. >> a lot of discussion about what happens with concrete prices and orders and copper and steel. what happens to contractor salaries whether there are enough engineers available to work on stuff like this. h how elastic is that? >> you know,

mr. cuny says free speech lets everyone else know what kind of person you are. lots of us are ugly inside. you can add your thoughts there as well @cspanwj. abraham is in burke, virginia, independent line. abraham, go ahead, good morning. >> caller: i was going to say that there should be -- to our national consequences for what we say. i think each person should be held accountable for what they say. the last two calls made a good point. it's better for people to just come out and be honest and let us make an informed decision about them rather than hide behind their words of kindness, right? and deceive us all. >> host: do you think that happens it on a regular basis, the kindness that deceased totally the person inside? >> guest: right. if you have been an sap endured a woman woman site bless your heart, you know that's not a good thing. so they're hiding either manners when they say such a thing. you know, and i'm sure we can find many more examples of that in our daily lives. >> host: just looking for historical context do you think there are more limits on free speech than when you're growing up or from a period in past history quick do you think there

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