mrs. edwards.> as jensen cross-examined the state's blood expert, diana made a key discovery. evidence lists showed elmore's panther had passed through eight different people before the trial. >> i jumped out of my chair. i start whispering to chris jensen, ask him what this means and who these people are and what that is supposed to represent. >> one name on the list jumped out at diana. thomas henderson was a state police agent who grew up across the street from dorothy edwards and james holloway and was friendly with both. >> tom henderson had nothing to do with forensic investigation at all. nothing. he wasn't supposed to be involved in the case any way. because these were people he knew his whole life long. >> there was really no reason for him to have removed these things from the laboratory. we were arguing that this evidence had in all likelihood been tampered with and quite conceivably that mrs. edwards' blood had been put on the garments. >> it would now be up to the judge to rule whether

mr. edwards. >> thank you to the witnesses again. mr. martin's report of september of 2014 found that nasa's estimate for the iss budget $3 million to $4 billion per year through 2024 is overly optimistic. that was reiterated in your testimony. i am really curious from mr. gerstenmeyer if you could talk about the basis of your estimate for projected crew and cargo transportation costs that support iss and i would note in that for example there have been three cargo mishaps in the last eight months. was that factored into your projection for costs? if it would seem that that alone would begin tissued costs those accidents which one could expect might happen over the course of operations another, to 2024, so it would be helpful to know what your basis for those estimated costs are and respond to the challenges mr. martin has laid out in september of 2014. >> we have been working aggressively to look at cost management and cost control. we have consolidated some contracts into a smaller number of contracts. we are also using competition to

mr. edward murray acting assistant secretary for management and interim chief financial officer of v.a. office of management. mr. gregg giddins principle executive director of v.a.'s office of acquisition, logistics and construction. mr. norbert doyle, chief procurement and veterans officer of the veterans health administration. ms. anderson assistant general council for government contracts of v.a.'s office of general counsel. mr. january frye, deputy assistant secretary for the office of acquisitions and logistics. mr. randall williamson, director of g.a.o.'s health care team. and mr. christopher labonte united states army veteran. i ask the witnesses to please stand and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear under penalty of perjury that the testimony you are about to provide is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. thank you, please be seated. mr. murray, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> good afternoon chairman coffman, ranking member customer and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to discussing the members of the veteran affairs

mrs. edwards. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized for three minutes. ms. edwards: i rise in strong opposition, the so-called v.a. accountability act. i'm a daughter of a veteran and i was outraged at the findings that wait time records were falsified. i have to tell you and has been said on the other side, my father actually received good care and services in v.a. as hundreds of thousands of veterans do all across this country and that is by the hundreds of thousands of veteran employees and workers at the v.a. i recall that in my state, 10% of our population in maryland are veterans and we are a small state. we care about veterans and the care they receive. just before adjourning last year, congress passed and i voted for and the president signed the veteran access choice and accountability act and gave the v.a. secretary expanded authority to fire or demote service employees and capped the amount of bonuses and required the v.a. to establish penalties for employees who knowingly submit false wait time data. enough already. almost one year later republica

mr. edward snowdenen, trader or hero. >> devastating. we know for a fact that there enemies of the united states today that have changed the way they communicate based on the information he has released. if he had concerned about u.s. intelligence programs there were multiple different proper channels he could have raised. he didn't have to go to the chinese or the russians and turn over troves of information. you may agree or disagree with intelligence but the fact is today there are men and women in american uniforms who are in danger -- in danger because of the information he has released. and by the way, some of the things he release ready flat out inaccurate, they are not true. they are flat out lies. and much of the information he has manipulated to turn himself into a heoic figure. he is a traitor and the information he delivered has had a devastating fact about our intelligence. and we know less than we need to know or should have known because of the information he's done. he's done terrible damage to this country and put lives

edwards: mr. martin, since i heard from mr. gerstenmaier, since your 2014 report is it still your assessment that nasa's projections are overly optimistic and in your analysis would you factor in three mishaps, failures, in a year in terms of looking at the costs? >> i'm not sure whether they factored how many accidents in but i do think their cost projections are overly optimistic and continue to be. over the life of the program, the i.s.s. has shown an 8% increase annually over the life of the program from 2011 to 2013 there was a 26% increase for i.s.s. moving forward, as nasa considers extending the life of the station to 2024 it's projected that in 2024 59% of station ex-pensions will be for crew and cargo transportation. that's a big piece of the pie. ms. edwards: just curious for all the panelists if you look at nasa's rationale for extending to 2024, they include research and technology discoveries that benefit society, enabling human exploration to mars, establishing commercial crew and cargo to sustain commercial use

edwards: mr. chairman. i would ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentlelady from tennessee seek recognition? mrs. black: mr. chairman i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mrs. black of tennessee. insert the following section, none of the funds made available by this act may be used by the environmental protection agency to finalize, implement, administer or enforce section 1037.601-a-16 title 40, code of federal regulations, as proposed to be revised under the proposed rule entitled greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency stads -- standards for medium and heavy duty engines and vehicles, phase two. signed by the administrator of the environmental protection agency on june 19 2015. docket number e.p.a. h.q.o.a.r. 2014 08-0827. or any rule of the same substance with respect to glider kits and glider vehicles

mr. chairman, we've a lot to discuss this one and want to thank our witnesses again for being here. and with that i yield back. >> thank you ms. edwardsmember of the full committee for a state that the gentlelady from texas. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, for holding this hearing on the international space station. this really is an important topic and i look forward to the testimony of our panel of witnesses and welcome them. it is no secret that i've been a long supporter of the iss. it plays a unique role in research, advancing human spaceflight and aspiring our young people. moreover, in addition to being an incredible engineering achievement, it provides a very visible demonstration of the benefits that can be derived from peaceful, international cooperation in space. failures of commercial cargo transportation missions to the iss remind us that spaceflight is not easy. failures will occur, and, unfortunately, these failures will have impacts on the program. we need to better understand those impacts as well as the plans for dealing with them going forward. and we need to know whether there are any lessons learned that nee

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i now recognize the ranking remember, miss edwards. >> thank you, and thank you to the witnesses again. mr. martin's report of september 2014 found that nasa's estimate for the budget, $3 billion to $4 billion through 2024 is overly optimistic. that was reiterated in your testimony. so i'm just really curious, if you could talk to us about the basis of your estimates for projecting crew and cargo transportation costs to support iss. for example, there have been three cargo mishaps in eight months. was that factors into your projections for cost? because it seems that alone would begin to shoot those costs up if those accidents might happen over the course of operations over a next -- to 2024. so it would be helpful to know what your basis for those estimated costs are. and respond to the challenges that mr. martin has laid out. in his september 2014 report. >> we have been looking and mansion cost management and cost control. we have consolidated some contracts into smaller contracts and also using competition to attempt to drive down the costs. we are in a black out period of a cargo resu

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edwards: thank you very much. mr. chairman, with the unanimous consent i would ask that i be allowed to enter letters into the record from my constituents including a girl scout troop saying we need to get on with this. chairman smith: without objection, thank you. mr. sensenbrenner's recognized. rep. sensenbrenner: i would like to ask a few questions about the climate change talks in paris the president is committed to reaching a deal. do you support national negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions? admin mccarthy: i support efforts to develop a global plan to move forward. rep. sensenbrenner: global plan ends resulting in increases in the price of carbon, are you concerned about the fact that would disproportionately hurt poor and middle income people rather than people were in the upper 1%? admin mccarthy: i believe that the actions we take on a green will protect all of us of a more importantly those most vulnerable to changes in climate. rep. sensenbrenner: i think poor and middle income people will be most conc

edwards: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to quote from this letter. it says fear of deportation also strengthens the ability of abusers and traffickers to find and trap their victims. not only are the individual victims harmed, but their fear of law enforcement leaves many to sustain from reporting violent perpetrators or coming forward. as a result, dangerous criminals are not identified and go unpunished. surely, mr. speaker, this is not what we need to do. we need to ensure the continued protections of domestic violence victims across this country no matter who they are and no matter where they are. to know that law enforcement o will be there to protect them and their children. and with that mr. speaker, i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from maryland yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. collins: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia continues to reserve. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. polis: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker

edwards: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i thank the ranking member. for months, mr. speaker, republicans have actually squandered an opportunity to develop and pass a long-term authorization for highway spending. and it's pretty regrettable. since may 19, republicans simply brought up and passed another two month extension. we've already heard, sometimes we lose count, is it 33 or 34 extensions? unfortunately, here we are two months later and we're careening gentleman again to another crisis, another republican-made crisis more gridlock for the highway trust fund right in the middle of the critical construction season. hundreds of thousands of jobs, as has been said and vie sal construction projects across the country are hanging in the balance. here we just have a few days left. what do we know? we know the republicans done have a plan and they don't have any ideas. we have some ideas. and those ideas are contained in the grow america act. i'm one of the original co-sponsors. it's a six-year $478 billion bill that would be a framework for our discussions. we could p

edwards: thank you very much, mr. chairman. and good morning and welcome to our distinguished panel of witnesses. i appreciate you are holding this hearing addressing operational challenges and as i listened to the chairman, i'm reminded that the challenges that nasa faces and the agency faces in operating the international space station i would be more concerned if we weren't able to overcome some of those challenges and it's a credit to the crew and the partners that that is true. about a year ago, i and the members of our committee sat in this room and looked on the screen there and had the opportunity to communicate with our nasa crew that was on board the international space station and the astronaut from maryland and i promised him crab cakes. the accident that the chairman referred to, my crab cakes didn't make the delivery. what happens when you connect real-time with our astronauts who are working and carrying out research in the laboratory that is 250 miles above us is really quite an inspiration. thanks to nasa and t

edwards: mr. speaker, here we've heard again exaggerated clails about implementation. let's get to the facts. first fact, the scientists tell us this is a standard we need to protect the public health. the second fact, the e.p.a. estimates that the cost might be around $3.9 billion. but let's look at the health benefits. because those are costing us currently, the health benefits are estimated to reach between $6.4 billion and $13 billion. that means that there's a ripple effect when we invest in making sure that we implement a standard that protects public health and it has a benefit on the public health. so mr. speaker, there's an argument here for the e.p.a. to simply do its job. the job that it was charged to do by taxpayers. and that is to protect the public health, to give us clean air and to make sure that we have ozone standards that in fact meet our responsibility. the e.p.a. is doing its job let's stop congress from keeping the e.p.a. from keeping our air clean. with that, i yield the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentl

mr. kelly, thank you sir. 4:19. information collected as part of the nsa wiretapping program leak will be purged. former contractor edward snowden first leak information about the secret program two years ago. under the patriot act access ends november 29th of this year. record collect in the five previous years will be destroyed, three months after that. nsa will switch to a system allowing numbers and duration of calls to be launched but not the contents of the calls and only on a as needed basis in terror investigations. >>> boy scouts of america ended its ban on gay leaders. policy initial to effect immediately this comes after the national executive board voted 42-12 in favor of the lifting the ban. under the new policy sexual orientation of perspective employees cannot figure into whether the the boy scouts hire them but local scout troops such as those led by religious organizations can still make decision to include openly gay scout leaders h in 2013 the boy scouts decided to allow openly gay youth scouts. >>> just six months after proclaiming boston would be city to bring summer olympics back to the u.s., u.s. o

mr. speaker, i rise with great excitement to congratulate the houston city council and our chief charles mccolan for naming our beacon of law enforcement building after edward alfred thomas, the longest serving and greatest patrol officer in the history of the houston police department so noted by fellow officers. edward alfred thomas was born in shreveport, louisiana, in 1920. he played football for southern university and as well he was drafted in world war ii where he saw action with the united states army at normandy, in northern africa and during the battle of the bulge. after the war with his honorable discharge edward thomas became one of the first african-american police officers in the city of houston. when he started he could not vote with our poll tax, where he worked for 63 years until his retirement on july 23 2011. he worked for more than six decades, way before the civil rights movement and his work was not without challenges. because of his work and because of his race, officer thomas was not allowed to drive a squad car or arrest white suspects without obtaining permission from his supervisor. at one point in his career he was disciplined f

mr. grijalva of arizona. first amendment by ms. tsongas of massachusetts. amendment by ms. edwards of maryland. amendment number 13 by mrs. lawrence from michigan. second amendment by mr. polis of colorado. sec amendment by ms. tsongas of massachusetts. third amendment by mr. polis of amendment in disagreement of a substitute. amendment number 6 by. am by mr. hardy of nevada. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote. the unfinished business is the request for recorded so the on which further proceedings were postponed and the noes prevailed. the cleric will redesignated the amendment. amendment offered by mr. guerra menda of california -- garamendi of california. the chair: a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is recorded. members will record their votes by electronic device. members this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. h

edwards: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i thank the ranking member. for months, mr. speaker, republicans have actually squandered an opportunity to develop and pass a long-term authorization for highway spending. and it's pretty regrettable. since may 19, republicans simply brought up and passed another two month extension. we've already heard, sometimes we lose count, is it 33 or 34 extensions? unfortunately, here we are two months later and we're careening gentleman again to another crisis, another republican-made crisis more gridlock for the highway trust fund right in the middle of the critical construction season. hundreds of thousands of jobs, as has been said and vie sal construction projects across the country are hanging in the balance. here we just have a few days left. what do we know? we know the republicans done have a plan and they don't have any ideas. we have some ideas. and those ideas are contained in the grow america act. i'm one of the original co-sponsors. it's a six-year $478 billion bill that would be a framework for our discussions. we could p

edward murray interim chief financial officer and gregory giddens, the principal executive director of the office of acquisitions, logistics and construction. thank you for being here with us today. mr. gibson you are not recognized for your opening statement. >> one year ago today 290,000 veterans were waiting for than 30 days for care. that number represented veterans' needs we were unable to meet timely. for the past year improving access to care has been among v.a.'s to be priorities and we've made real progress. come completed seven million more appointments for care than in the previous 12 months doubled the additional capacity required to meet those veterans' needs of a year ago. average weight time for completed appointment, four days for primary care five days for specialty care three days for mental health. scheduled appointments inside v.a. are up 12%. authorizations for v.a. care in the community up 44%. 97% of appointments inside v.a. are completed within 30 days of the clinically indicated date or the date the veteran requested. we know for many veterans 30 days is far too long to wait so we track shorter time frames. 93% completed within 14 days 88% completed within s