mr. murray. mr. frye, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> chairman kaufman, ranking member custer and members of the sub-committee, thank you for allowing me to testify today. you just heard about the illegal purchases of billion dollars of dollars in nonv.a. care over multiple years. if you are not confused, i'm surprised. i would be completely confused if i were not familiar with the fakes. we do not intend to admit our failures and stewardship of public funds. mr. murray stated there was and is and confusion and conflicting interpretations. as v.a. senior leaders we've had many years to correct these deficiencies. and there are incorrect -- conflicting interpretations of law. in 2012 a v.a. official informed me trouble was looming as they were violating the law with regard to the purchase of nonv.a. care. i asked for legal documents. he declined to reveal anything. on october 12th i began a interview into this ordeal. i addressed the polite to hope to receive additional information from hi

mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president, in today's economy, too many of our workers across this country are underpaid, they're overworked, and they are treated unfairly on the job. in short, they lack fundamental economic security. in congress we have got to act to give our workers much-needed relief. we need to grow our economy from the middle out, not the top down, and we should make sure that our country works for all americans, not just the wealthiest few. and, mr. president, there is no reason that we can't get to work on legislation to do just that. that is why i'm here this afternoon joining my colleagues in calling for us in the senate to move on some important policies that will help restore economic security and stability to more of our workers. so with that, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent -- mr. president, i understand that we are waiting for one of my republican colleagues to come to the floor before i ask unanimou

mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, across our country today so many of our workers clock in for 40 hours a week. they work really hard, and yet they are unable to provide for their families. just last fall nbc news interviewed a woman named la toya who works at a fast food restaurant. she was protesting as part of a fast food workers strike. la toya is raising four children alone on less than $300 a week and it is well below the poverty line for her and her family. for part of last year she was living in a homeless shelter. she told the reporter -- and i quote -- "nobody should work 40 hours a week and find themselves homeless." on top of those rock-bottom wages, latoya said she and her colleagues experienced unpaid wages, unpredictable scheduling and having to make do with broken equipment on the job. you know, in today's economy, too many of our workers

mr. murray, now we know his name, fell, could you see what the reaction was from the people that were inper deck area close to where he was standing? >> yes, i could. i actually kept looking up there, did he fall from the upper deck or the middle deck. there's a smaller middle deck. he fell from the upper deck. i could see people with their hands on their faces. and then the people below where i was told we were at the stadium, there was a lot of blood, as you can imagine. they were all horrified and shaking their heads. and people were just -- you could see that everybody around there was impacted by the horrific aspect of the -- of the body hitting the concrete and luckily nobody below was struck either. that's happened before. >> right. tragic. all right. thank you so much for calling in about what you experienced and witnessed last night at turner field. >> still ahead, a man is in custody as police look for a motive now in that execution style killing of a texas deputy. we'll discuss the theory the deputy was targtsed simply because he was in uniform. it takes technology, engineerin

mr. murray had replaced him. the unabomber was proud of himself.that his bomb had killed the wrong man. they were engaged in the same kind of work, which was anti-environment in his opinion. and so it was okay. >> i'd been to a number of bomb scenes over my career, and the last one in sacramento was probably one of the more horrific. the shrapnel is usually what maims or kills the victim. most of the cases, nails, staples, and screws were used. that's an antipersonnel device. that's used to maim or kill. >> when you go to those crime scenes or when you see the devastation that was left behind and then you read about what he says and how he felt about those bombs, it's really chilling. it's chilling that someone can think like that, behave like that, and do that kind of thing. >> by now, the unabomber had been at large for almost 17 years. >> we talk about lone actors a lot, how difficult they are to catch. the unabomber was the lone wolf in the most classic sense. >> socially, he defined himself as a social cripple. but technologically, ironically

quorum call: mrs. murray: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: madam president i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: madam president thank you. today -- actually thanks to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle the senate is unfortunately taking a vote on whether critical health care services should be taken away from millions of women across the country. we're going to be voting on whether a young woman should be able to go a provider she trusts to get birth control whether cancer screenings should be more or less available to women across the country and whether the united states senate is going to turn back the clock on women's health. to me and to many democrats and even some republicans who want to help women get the care they need, it is deeply disappointing that we are even having this debate. because extreme republicans have attacked planned parenthood and women's health so many times before on the budget, on the highway bill, on the affordable care act and e

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mr. murray. >> good evening commissioners jav vice murray enforcement legal manager at sfmta according to the rules of the board of appeals except in expired case the board may grant a rehearing only about san francisco ethics commission have arisen granting a rehearing request is an extraordinary remedy in this situation while heed to reality this we believe the matter was closed no new evidence as has been presented and no new offend not reasonably considered or discussed has been preferred they're asking for more time to convey a better argument or a different argument perhaps i'm sure it is better but beyond that no new evidence has been presented what has been present a dissatisfaction with the board rule and that didn't equal to a grant a new hearing request and in their briefing the appellant want the board to propose briefing on policy regarding the sfmta and future policy that may or may not be set up that's you know whether it is not in the purview of the board necessarily but again those are things that could have been brought up at the time of the hearing if their genuine issu

mr. chairman. thank you, senator murray. thank you to you and your staff for working together so that we jointly invited the witnesses today. that always produces a better hearing and a good variety of views. each witness will have up toru five minutes so i'll ask you full summarize your views in five minutes so senators can have a chance to give their questions. then i will introduce -- then we'll take an hour. i said before some of the senators came in, we'll have to end the first panel at 11:00 so we'll get to the second panel which will go until 12:00. doctor, as the director of national center for immunization and respiratory diseases at the centers for disease control and prevention. she's worked at cdc since 1998 on immunization, respiratory and other infeshs disease. she's an admiral in the public health service commission corps and was named assistant surgeon general in 2006. welcome. >> good morning, mr. chairman and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. our nation's immun

mr. stover. i think i'll go last this time. so the order would be senator murraysenator cochran, senator moran. senator murray? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you very much to all of our panelists. i really appreciate all of you participating today. ms. peterson, i'm really excited to hear about the delivery system reform work under way. and i'm proud that our hospitals have been recognized as national leaders in increasing the quality and safety of care. i'm particularly excited about the recent grant from the centers for medicare and medicaid innovation you mentioned in your testimony to support the healthy washington initiative efforts to improve care statewide that will reduce costs and stabilize some of our rural hospitals. what have you found to be the most significant barriers to integrating care in the first year of this effort? >> at this point, and you're right, it is very exciting what is going on in the state of washington, i would go back to that fragmented reimbursement system. not only are the incentives different based on what line of

murray? senator cochran? >> no, thank you, mr. chairman. >> would you like a minute? >> no, thank you though. >> let's properly close out here. we'll leave the record open for a week for questions to be submitted. we thank our panel for coming and we are going to adjourn until 10:00 a.m. on thursday, april the 16th. thank you all for being here. that can't be right. on may the 16th. thank you all. >>> this week, we're bringing you american history tv in pry time here on c-span 3. tonight's focus is the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. programming includes remarks from president truman's grandson clifton truman daniel. from our real america program, the atom strikes. from 1945. a u.s. signal corps film that documents a manhattan project report on the destruction caused by the atomic bombs. on american artifacts, it's a look at the hiroshima/nagasaki atomic bomb exhibit from washington, d.c.'s american history museum. starting at 8:00 p.m. tonight on c-span, it's energy expert mark millings with mills with a presentation that suggests that oil and gas producti

murray bay, taft's presidency would have been a lot happier. [laughter] ms. swain: can you imagine the political fallout of having a summer home in another country? mr. gould: well, that's why they would have annexed. i mean, it would have become -- but, yeah, it just was impossible. but he loved murray bay so much, he just waited to get there to get away from the heat of washington. ms. cook: well, and she was also -- this is not during the chief justice years, but right after the white house. she did write an autobiography with a ghostwriter. and that was a first to have it published. louisa adams wrote an autobiography, but it was not published in her lifetime. helen's were published. ms. swain: and published in 1914. ms. cook: fourteen. ms. swain: as you said, just a couple of years after she left the white house. as a matter of fact, if you're really interested in her life, we have hyperlinked her autobiography on our website. it's in a public domain now. and you can read it if you'd like to have more of her detail. again, it's on that website. trying to put lots of resources on there for those of you who are interested. mr. gould: it's more abou

mr. chairman. it was an honor to substitute for you today. senator mary, do you have additional questions? sen. murray: i would like to asked to include a statement from the education fund and i will submit the questions i have but i want to thank all of our panelists for their expert testimony. this is an extremely important topic and i think every parent who is sending a daughter or son to college once to know that we are doing everything we can to make sure they are protected and you have given us great insight into how to do this correctly. i look forward to working with you on this. sen. alexander: this has been a priority of senator murray's and she will continue to focus on campus safety. we're thinking about a hearing coming up soon on that. i have three questions i would like to ask the panel and the answers can come later. question number one goes back to what i said earlier. the government has a way of expressing its concern in laws rules, and regulations that aren't as efficient as the concern is real. we sometimes cause campuses to spend more time filling out forms and working with studen

mr. chairman. it was an honor to substitute for you today. senator murray, do you have additional questions? senator murray: i would like to ask consent to include a statement from the education fund, and i will submit the questions i have but i want to thank all of our panelists for their expert testimony. this is an extremely important topic, and i think every parent who is sending a daughter or son off to college once to know that -- wants to know that we are doing everything we can to make sure they are protected and you have given us great insight into how to do this correctly. i look forward to working with you on this. senator alexander: this has been a priority of senator murray's and she will continue to focus on campus safety. we're thinking about a hearing coming up soon on that. i have three questions i would like to ask the panel, and the answers can come later. question number one goes back to what i said earlier. the government has a way of expressing its concern in laws, rules, and regulations that aren't as efficient as the concern is real. in other words, we sometimes dupli

mr. trump. >> he said he's not seeking anyone else's money for his campaign. is that the case? >> that is not the case. we actuallily have a great story, cnn.com by my colleague, sarah murrayerpac that is soliciting money for his campaign and, also, a nonprofit group. and donald trump apparently did appear at events for where money was being raised for those organizations. so the question now is is he no longer a politician? or is he pretty much doing what everyone else in if race is doing? >> that is interesting. charles, trump mocked jeb because according to trump, interest groups are going to want something from jeb. so when trump says he isn't beholden to anyone because of self-funding his campaign, do you think that still holds water? >> well, i don't think that it matters whether it holds water or not. i can guarantee you, though, that he is not going to stop making these very same attacks on all the professional politicians. as far as he's concerned, this has nothing to do with raising money or not raising money or soliciting donations or not soliciting donations. all this has to do is a con stant broadside on professional politicians. this has served him very, very

mr. chairman with you and other members of this committee to support this important initiative. >> thanks, senator murray. to underscore what senator murray said, this specific topic is a initiative of the president in which the committee and bipartisan way is very interested. we expect to get a result. we have three witnesses now, i ask senator cassidy if he would like to introduce the first. >> dr. karen disalvo know each other from way back. in her honor we made the spread tulane green today so anyway -- and dr. disalvo for health information technology at the office of the national coordinator of information technology. the lead agency charged with formulating the government i.t. strategy and coordinating policy standards and programs and investment. i've been impressed she has come to me personally and there's a friend back home having a lot of problems with her electronic record and she called her and they spoke at length. she clearly recognizes int interoperability as key. she was health commissioner for city of new orleans, including and after hurricane katrina. >> we expect to get to know you pr

mrs. boxer: and do you know i have to say in 2011, republicans threatened to shut down the government if planned parenthood wasn't defunded. and i heard my friend from washington patty murray, say they were serious. they were going to shut down the government to deny health care to 2.7 million women and men every year, some of them basic health care. i'll show you a particular person here. this is doreen from california. "i went to planned parenthood and i talked to the clinician. she gave me a referral to a breast care center where i had a mammogram and a biopsy, was ultimately diagnosed with breast cancer. i was scheduled for a lumpectomy in two weeks. that woman could have died. you say go to emergency care centers? most of you voted no on obamacare. i ask unanimous consent to place in the record a community health care center in california, mr. president, who says they cannot take any more patients. they cannot take that, 700,000 patients. so they say to the women go to community health care centers. they voted against obamacare expanded the community health care centers and the community health care centers are saying, no we're sorry. we can't do it. planned parenthoo