mr. owens, mr. owens, ms. ivory are all veterans and in fact 50% of the staff at hec are disabled veterans. and allegations surfaced that applications for veteran's health care were being shredded under the director of kimberly h hues. they discovered this allegation and discovered 2,000 applications didn't appear as new enrollments. the investigation was closed by the office and she was also subject to harassment and intimidati intimidation because she dared to advocate for veterans. the statements i provided to the committee were provided to the oig and i urge additional review of those statements. in addition to providing whistle blower harassment i hope it provides insight to key three issues va management fails to address. wreckless waste ofunds and causing backlog for the sole purpose of achieving goals. why is there resistance to implementing effective reporting system and the source of resistance as addressed by dr. draper and her testimony. and the need to remove managers and the critical need for the

mr. owens, mrs. owens, ms. ivory, are all veterans. fact, over 50% of the staff that works are disabled veterans. in 2010, allegations surfaces that applications for health care were being shredded under the direction of the deputy director and former associate director, and her team, kimberly hues saw two,000 apl2,000 apoli that did not appear as new enrollments in the system. it was abruptly closed and she was also subject to harassment and intimidation. the whittle blower statements i have provided to the committee were also provided to the oig. they are more relevant to the committee than many may realize. i urge additional review of the whittle blower statements. in addition to providing specific examples of to the committee. i hope it provides insight to three key issues. reckless waste of federal funds and causing back log of enrollment applications for the purpose of achieving goals. why there is resistance to implementing proper and effective reporting sift exes an the need to remove ineffective managers and the critical need

mr. owens: -- mr. wenstrup: one of these facilities is in ohio. today, half a century later, it needs to be decommissioned and cleaned up, a task that has been entrusted to the department of energy. like other d.o.e. projects, this is largely funded through uranium sales. since the price of uranium has dropped significantly since fuke, additional funding is necessary it to make up for the loss of revenue. the community cannot move forward without an adequate cleanup. the people of pike county and the region worked extremely hard for the national security interests of this country. unfortunately we, the federal government, seem to be running from them in their time of need. this community is helds who tanl, unable to develop -- hostage, unable to develop their economy or their land until the cleanup is complete. delaying the cleanup punishes a community that answered our nation's call and now our nation is willing to walk away from them, leaving a radioactive and chemical contamination. without adequate funding, the federal government is leaving a

. >> recognize the gentleman from utah, mr. owens. of impeachment ofused on many instances abuse, the cover-up of the watergate break-in. article two is a contrast of very serious abuses of the power of the presidency. these are charges that the president used his power or knowingly permitted his power to be used to do something unconstitutional, illegal, immoral, or to do something legal but for political or non-legitimate purposes. this is not a grab bag of presidential actions which a majority of the committee thinks is unwise or bad or contrary to our national interest. these are what they must be to be impeachable. acts which would be clear violations of the standards of conduct for any president. violations which are so grave and such an abuse of the presidential trust that the public well-being requires that they be corrected. there are other serious offenses of the president which do not, in my opinion, rise to the level of impeachable if he can meet on the basis of evidence before us, i do not believe the allegations , havebe

mr. owens, mrs. owens, miss ivory are all veterans. in fact, over 50% of the staff that works at the hec are disabled veterans. in 2010 allegations surfaced that applications for va health care were being shredded at the hec under the direction of the hec director and deputy director. miss kimberly hughes, former associate director for informatics and her team began to investigate this allegation. her team discovered nearly 2,000 applications that were reported as being processed that did not appear as new enrollments in the enrollment system. miss hughes' investigation was abruptly closed by the hec director's office. she was also subject to harassment and intimidation because she dared to advocate for veterans. the whistle-blower statements i have provided to the committee were also provided to the oig and i'm more relevant than many may realize. i urge the review of those whistle-blower statements. in addition to providing specific examples to the committee, i hope my testimony provides some insight to three key issues va management

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, authorization to amend the local services agreement with miller and owen to extend the term to june 30, 2015. >> thank you, and mr. freed will be presenting. >> sure. this one against is the annual reuping of the miller and owens contract to do the legal services in the past for many years that we are appreciative that she would, and miss miller was also acting as the executive officer with the recent changes that they are going back to the legal services. so, we are, and we are requesting that if we continue the legal services and also, with their knowledge, and experience, here i am also going to be part of and we will be utilizing that knowledge and experience, for other purposes outside of the legal council services and last year we had approved not-to-exceed rate of $95,000 but based on the board of supervisors, you know, the request that this be a cost saving measure and also the fact of the work load being reduced and given the chance of the responsibility within lafco and the staff is recommending a amount of $45,000, and this is for me, a best guess as to what are not-to-exceed amount would be. and if we

mr. shiller, with we are seeing kind of a huge headwind developing in the economy from real estate. i mean, we have had really bad numbers with owens corning, and armstrong real bad numbers and a lot of it is because the new houses are not moving and the prices went up too much. isn't this healthy that they come back down? didn't people raise the prices for housing particularly the home builders way too quickly? >> that could be. there seems to be some new anxieties at work, too. you know, i think that economics needs a little bit more sociology in it. we don't understand these. it seems like optimism about housing is weaken iing. i don't know what it has to do, and maybe, i think that, maybe the internationals and all of the talk of ukraine has people rattled, i have felt it in the past that international news affects the housing market. i don't have proof of it, but something is weighing on the consumers right now, and i dont n't know if they raised the prices too fast, but they were caught in another headwind that is hard to measure. >> professor, do you think that we will always hear that the banks are too tight on the credit a