mr. kelley. in thomas, you are recognized. >> i would like to thank congressman for asking me to come to washington to tell my story. i would like to thank chairman murphy and representative degette for holding the hearing today. my name is january thomas. the story i have to tell is a nightmare that could have been prevented. my life hasn't been the same since it occurred and changed the lives of my entire family and community. on june 24, 2009 what started out as a normal spring morning ended up being a nightmare. a 24-year-old former student mark becker walked to our high school weight room and in front of 22 young high school students emptied the gun. ed did not survive the injuries and he died on the way the hospital. he was 58 years old and he coached for 46 years. in one quick moment so many lives were impacted. our family lost a son, husband, father, grandfather, and brother whom we love very much. the students in the weight room that day along with the extended community lost a mentor, f

mr. kelley? >> i would like to ask the committee start expanding the definition of a family member beyond a parent because there are other members of the families in this role. quite frankly change is hard and i want to thank ms. mcgraw from the bottom of my heart because it has taken so long to hear what she just said. we need to change things and sometimes you can't get change unless you change things. there has to be a car for the mentally ill or unless the patient objects. >> i would kind of agree with what he said. we need to be made more aware of what it actually does. for the special clauses for the mentally ill. >> thanks ms. mcgraw. >> what our guidance, understandable so that people can easily find it may be on a hot line for questions. >> i yield back the balance of my time. >> the time is expired. at this point, i just want to -- the understand that the ranking member has unanimous consent request. i do want to say this. this committee has a practice of only accepting sworn testimony.

mr. kelley. >> in all due respect i fear there's a significant detachment from reality. mr. rodriguez. it is underlined unless the patient of jack's and seven through the mentally ill, back at your not the one know and the fact is that we need to have exceptions. it's just plain and simple. >> i can speak on behalf of the fact i'm a volunteer emt for community and the threat of lawsuit prevents a statement from the unlike we are able to tell family members conditions of patients who =tranfour. so with this misunderstanding has emphasized in our training. >> in a written statement he said 17% or 39 lipitor information from health care providers due to race about how information may be disclosed. the study was on general health issues, and i correct? >> in the time i had to prepare for this testimony i looked for more specific statistics on persons being held back from seeking truth and for mental health. i didn't have enough time to time nothing directly. i did find something on the mental illness website is talked about two thirds of people with mental illness do not seek treatment or

mr. kelley. good morning to you and good morning to everybody at home. it is a really important thing that keep up the planet that we live in for future generations. here in the bay area, you have plenty of opportunities that you may not be aware of. i'm live in san jose. the guadalupe liver park conservancy, the heritage rose garden to be specific, while the city supplies the materials this is primarily run by the volunteers. it is such a beautiful time to be out here full bloom right now. that will last until mid-may. we are going to let you know about all the opportunities you have to come on out here and learn about gardening and learn about our climate. that's coming up throughout the morning. let's get right to your forecast. after all, you made it to thursday. so close to friday and the weekend now. it's going to heat up. we have a really nice day, though. temperatures today are going to be down right perfect as that natural coolant has kicked back on. this morning, it is really comfortable. it is rather brisk out here. temperatures in the low to

mr. kelley?> so, one of the things without a lot of conversation about and when i said i learned something from director rodriguez point was how the concept of incapacity place in the capability to share information with family members, which is not contingent on serious or imminent risk. but circumstances under which mental health professional can make a judgment about talking to family member when they believe it's in the best interest of the patient, which is in circumstances when the patient is not about to object or incapacity. looking to the guidance that is right in front of you about the ability to talk to family members, the issue of the incapacity which is, in fact, in the predatory language is not really explored in very much detail. so it does leave a lot of uncertainty on the part of providers about how do they comply with and what does that mean. it certainly would be helpful to have the guidance to explain the issue a little more detail. >> i yield back. >> mr. scalise come you are

ray kelley, legislative director for foreign wars that the united states and mr. lewis kelley, legislative director of the american link. your written statements will be made a part of the hearing this morning. i would say we didn't receive the legions until less than an hour before this hearing. that's never happened that i'm aware of. so hopefully we won't have to. it's very difficult when we get the president's budget late and then comments or marketization slate, makes it difficult for members to observe the testimony you're getting here today. your complete written statements will be made part of the hearing record. you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. chairman miller, ranking member of the committee, on behalf of tv, and pleased to present recommendations of the independent budget for fiscal year 2014 related to veterans benefits administration. this year contains numerous recommendations to improve benefits programs in the claims processing system. i will be highlighting a few. the dba commended to the claims of less than 125 days

mrs. carter, oh, yes, i interviewed lillian carter, she's memorable. and i was around a bit with virginia clinton kelley, but i didn't interview her, but i was very much around when she was there. so those i did really get to watch and talk to and got a feel of their personalities. >> how many of these 11 women have a book written about them? >> you know, five of them write their own autobiographies, and that was wonderful, because they then put many family stories in that don't appear in other president-oriented biographies, stories about the boys when they were little, stors about how they felt about their kids when they were growing up. so those five, i just mined endlessly, just loved them. and then, of course, there were some books written about the later ones, barbara bush -- no, barbara bush -- i get mixed up myself. she's in the category apart from the others in that she might be, might be the only woman since abby gail adams to be both first lady and first mother. but she had things about her mother-in-law in it. there was a book about lady bird johnson. there were a few books, but most of all

a highly rated abc talk show "live with kelley and michael" during the football season he is a studio analyst on fox nfl sunday. davis amses den en writes that mr. strahan has established himself as a rare media personality, as recognizeable to housewives as he is to their adolescent sons so we're pleased to have him here at this table for the first time. welcome. >> thank you, i'm happy to be here. >> rose: so you like this television thing. >> i love it. i love it. it beats getting hit in the head for a living it if i had known this may be i would have skipped football all together. >> rose: talking about football, the act of leaving. >> uh-huh. >> rose: when did you, did you ever have any misgivings after that that maybe i should have done one more. >> oh, yeah. oh, yeah, definitely. especially because i left it. i went to fox. and i knew what the next step was. but any time you win a championship and you feel physically and mentally that you could play a year or two more and you get to play a year as a champion to kind of do that victory ride and say yeah, i'm the man. >> rose: the nfl champ is coming this sunday. >> i never got a chance to

mr. red wolf, the father of a sum that suffered from mental illness and substance addiction, then edward kelley is also of a son with mental illness. would you like to also recognize your guest? >> thank you mr. chairman. i am thrilled to have one of my constituents testify today from parkersburg of iowa. she has a story to tell about this gentleman of was featured in sports illustrated after he was gunned down by a former student. he was the nfl national high school coach of the year with four of his former players playing in the national football league, and she has an important story to share with us about these issues. >> finally we have ms. mcgraw, the director of the health privacy project at the center for democracy and technology. as you are all aware the committees of investigative hearings and when doing so has a proximate both. do you have any objective to testify under oath? beatifies under the house and rules of the committee were advised by counsel do you desire to be advised during the testimony today? all answered negatively. would you all please rise and raise your right hand a