ms. brown: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for such time. ms. brown: mr. speaker, i support h.r. 1762, as amended, which names a new veterans clinic in dalles, oregon, in honor of loren r. kaufman, a soldier in the united states army during world war ii and the korean war. sergeant first class kaufman joined the army the week after the attack on pearl harbor and served north africa and europe during world war ii. later during the korean war, he earned the medal of honor for his quick counterattack on enemy combat which so surprised the enemy they retreated in confusion at the age of 28 years old while serving in division, infantry sergeant was killed in action. as stated in the citation for his medal, his leadership of sergeant kaufman was directly responsible for the success of his company in regaining its position, reflecting the distinct credit upon himself and upholding the esteemed tradition of the military service. mr. speaker

ms. brown: mr. speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 3969 as amended which would designate the department of veterans' affairs community-based outpatient clinic in laughlin, nevada, as the master chief petty officer jesse dean department of veterans' affairs community based outpatient clinic. master chief petty officer dean, who passed away in 2014, was a highly decorated vietnam veteran who served 27 years in the navy before retiring in 1992. he joined the american -- settled in laughlin and joined the american leon where he was revered by fellow members for his selfless service. he was an exemplary sailor and beloved citizen, husband, and father. i understand that when congressman heck asked his constituents to recommend a veteran to name this clinic after, officer dean was the only name mentioned. mr. speaker, master chief petty officer dean was dedicated to -- dedication to his community, his country is in keeping with the finest idea of service and giving, making him the ideal name sake for the ne

[applause] ms. brown: thank you president berger very much. it is a huge honor to be here with jack geary, whose generosity to georgetown is inspiring. there may be a lot of land in texas but as mark twain said, we are not making it anymore. hundreds of acres of protected greenery will grace this town in perpetuity. until recently, my familiarity

. >> okay commissioner peskin thank you, madam chair colleagues ms. brown has appeared before this body when she was originally appoint the fact she's not here and seeking reappointment is kind of business as normal if someone wants to continue that seat and have the experience why change that out i know that the way this commission and this body has conducted itself over many, many years to keep the desires of the district supervisor with the brt with various district and appointees the pattern and practice of that committee as i said over a a long time to honor the wishes of the district supervisor i will vote to keep that seat vacant actually commissioner mar has a say. >> thank you commissioner farrell. >> just to be clear i agree with that sentiment did richmond seat we should respect the wishes of commissioner mar and i got the comments of someone that showed up i will be willing to give people a chance to come back but support someone from today that rolls through district 5 and i'm sure district 3 that's my inclination but the other way i appreciate

. >> thank you very much, ms. brown, as akccustomed with this committee, i would ask all members waive their opening statement. from v.a., we're going to hear from the undersecretary for health and department of veterans affairs, accompanied by dr. lynch, assistant deputy under secretary for health and clinical operations from the office of inspector general, we have mr. larry rinkmeyer, director of the kansas city office of audits and evaluation. accompanied by mr. gary abi, acting assistant director, and finally, ms. debra draper, director of the health care team at the government accountability office. i would ask that all of the witnesses please stand so we can swear you in. raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to provide is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. please be seated. let the record reflect that all witnesses did answer in the affirmative. doctor, you're recognized for your opening statement of five minutes. >> good morning, chairman mil

with that, i yield to the ranking member, ms. brown, for an opening statement that she may have. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for calling this hearing today. strong oversight of the department suicide prevention program remains a priority of this committee. we are all aware of the often-cited statistics of 22 veterans a day committing suicide. we also know that v.a. reports in 2014 that there is a decreased rate of suicide among users of the veterans health care system with mental health conditions. the question becomes how can we insure ready access to safe, quality mental health services for veterans in need of care? i hope that the v.a. witnesses here today will be able to update us on those numbers as much of the country was not included in previous estimates. the last subject that concerns me relate to the new my va12 breakthrough priorities. i understand that addressing the suicide problem is not one of those. increased access to health care and proven comprehensive and -- [inaudible] exams, continue to reduce homelessness and tra

. >> thank you, sir next speaker for general public comment good evening ms. brown. >> it's been a long evening but as usual i'm here to or here to talk about my son aubrey abrakasa like to use the overhead any son aubrey abrakasa what was mshtd august 14, 2006, and let me make sure they got it i have something wrong with it does it - >> it's there. >> oh. >> thank you. >> we'll start our time great. >> what happened to it was so big. >> okay. >> that's fine as i said before there is a 200 and $50,000 award issued by the mayor's office for the to catch the perpetrators that murdered any son mother's day is coming sunday and i'm not feeling that good about it it will not be a mother's day for me i don't have any child my only son that should be bringing me some flowers i don't have that so i'm here still keeping his memory alive and case alive this is a cold case now as i said everyone knows who killed any son i bring up and carry the thing that was george gascon he mentioned i know who killed my son the da knows who killed my son but nobody it doing anything about i

ms. brown, i believe that transparency in government leads to increased accountability. i know is one of the privacy and provideberties was to additional transparency surrounding the frequency of the incidental collection of u.s. persons communications and i also understand that february 2016 the board described this recommendation as "being implemented." the question is can you walk through the specifics of what the board recommended and provided us with some more detail regarding the status of the implementation of the executive -- in the its secular branch. >> i agree with some of my said, it is hard to judge the impact on american people. the government -- we have had an ongoing dialogue about how to get more information to the public about this. it is very difficult if not impossible to come up with an exact number. when a foreign target communicating with other people, the government doesn't automatically know the nationality. it would be resource intensive to investigate that. we did think, recognizing those challenges, we did think there were some aspects of the

with that, i yield to the ranking member ms. brown for an opening statement she may have. >> thank you, mr. chairman for calling this hearing today. strong oversight of the suicide prevention program remains a priority of this committee. we are all aware of the often cited statistics of 22 veterans a day committing suicide. we also know that va reports in 2014 that there is a decreased rate of suicide among users of the veterans health care system with mental health condition much the question becomes how can we ensure ready access to safe quality mentality health service of veterans in need of care. i hope the va witnesses here today will be able to update us on those numbers as much of the country was not included in previous estimates. my subject that concerns me relate to the new my va 12 break through priorities. i understand that addressing the suicide problem is not one of those. increased access to health care and proven comprehension and pension exams, continuing to reduce homelessness and transform the supply chains are all

with that, i yield to the ranking member ms. brown for an opening statement she may have. >> thank you, mr. chairman for calling this hearing strong oversight of the prevention program remains a priority of this committee. we are all aware of the often cited statistics of 22 veterans a day --, and reports in 2014 there is a decreased rate of suicide among users of the veterans health care system with mental health condition much the question becomes how can we ensure ready access to safe quality mentality health service of veterans in need of care. i hope the v.a. witnesses here today will be able to update us on those numbers as much of the country was not included in previous estimates. my subject -- i understand that addressing the suicide problem is not one of those. increased access to health care and proven comprehension and pension exams, continuing to reduce homelessness and transform the supply chains are all on the list, but specifically reducing suicide is not included. given that suicide nationally is considered by somebod

thanks ms. brown. next speaker. >> testifier: my name is angel navarro. [calling names]. i would like to get names first before you start going off. i want to start with this , church boy just what you know so i don't know if you are familiar with that. it goes proverbs 21, chapter 21, verse seven. the violence of the wicked shall sweep them away because they refused to do justice. i'm going to say that one more time. i'm looking your eyes. proverbs 21, chapter 21 verse seven. the violence of the wicked shall sweep them away because they refused to do refused to do justice. i was born in san francisco. i've been here. i been running around. i was watching those kids that got kicked out plain soccer over there by the tech company. the likely book but a paper we can't play. what happened to us, man? what happened to us? we were all kids get we are playing in the street, playing ball. plain cops and robbers to become victims of that. i'm just tired of it. i'm here to shout at you or anything. we have the kid say here and say remember the i think it was batman because i think

thanks ms. brown. next speaker. >> testifier: my name is angel navarro. [calling names]. i would like to get names first before you start going off. i want to start with this , church boy just what you know so i don't know if you are familiar with that. it goes proverbs 21, chapter 21, verse seven. the violence of the wicked shall sweep them away because they refused to do justice. i'm going to say that one more time. i'm looking your eyes. proverbs 21, chapter 21 verse seven. the violence of the wicked shall sweep them away because they refused to do refused to do justice. i was born in san francisco. i've been here. i been running around. i was watching those kids that got kicked out plain soccer over there by the tech company. the likely book but a paper we can't play. what happened to us, man? what happened to us? we were all kids get we are playing in the street, playing ball. plain cops and robbers to become victims of that. i'm just tired of it. i'm here to shout at you or anything. we have the kid say here and say remember the i think it was batman because i think

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ms. weingarten, just yesterday was of the 62nd anniversary of the brown vs. brown decision n.g.o. released a report detailing the relationship between resegregation and resource equity in our nation's schools. in particular g.a.o. found that schools with high percentages of low-income and minority students are less likely to have access to advance course work and more likely to experience high rates of exclusionary discipline. esea requires any school in which one or more subgroups is at the level of the bottom 5% to address inequities and could significant new reporting requirements, i want to ask both of you. how critical is the issue of resource equity? in particular in light of how far we still have to go in terms of the promise. >> for all educators, resource equity is the game changer here. it's what we haven't been measuring. i think it's why so many of the comments today were on -- let's not go back to a numbers game where we pretend that if we hit this number it must mean that we have equitable opportunity to learn. you can be measuring things on that dashboard. the dashb

ms. weingarten, just yesterday as of the 62nd anniversary of the brown vs. brown decision n.g.o. released a report detailing the relationship between resegregation and resource equity in our nation's schools. in particular g.a.o. found that schools with high prsages of low-income and minority students are less likely to have access to advance course work and more likely to experience high rates of exclusionary discipline. ofmente sea requires any school in which one or more subgroups is at the level of the bottom 5% to address inequities and could significant new reporting requirements, i want to ask both of you. how critical is the issue of resource equity? in particular in light of how far we still have to go in terms of the promise. >> for all educators, resource equity is the game changer here. it's what we haven't been measuring. ms. garcia: i think it's why so many of the comments today were on -- let's not go back to a numbers game where we pretend that if we hit this number it must mean that we have equitable opportunity to learn. you can be measuring things on that dashb

ms. weingarden. just yed was the 62nd anniversary of the landmark brown versus brown decision and gao issued a report detailing the desegregation and resource equity in our schools. they found schools with high percentages of low income and minority students are less likely to have access to advanced course work and more likely to experience high rates of exclusionary discipline. essa requires any school in which one or more subgroups is performing at the level of the bottom 5% to address resource inequities and includes significant new reporting requirements related to resource equity. i wanted to ask both of you how critical is the issue of resource equity and in particularly in light of how far we still have to go in terms of the promise of brown versus brown. >> i think for all educators, resource equity is the game changer here. it's what we haven't been measuring. and i think it's why so many of the comments today were on let's not go back to a numbers game. where we pretend that if we hit this number it must mean that we have equitable opportunity to learn. you can be measuring things on that

ms. weingarten, just yesterday was the 62nd laanniversary of the landmark brown versus brown decision. in particular, gao found that schools with high percentages of low income and minority students are less likely to have access to advanced coursework and more likely to experience high rates of exclusionary discipline. esea requires any school in which one or more sub groups is performing at the level of the bottom 5% to address resource and equities and include significant new reporting requirements related to resource equity. i wanted to ask both of you how important is it particularly in light houf far we have go in terms of the promise of brown versus brown. >> i think for all educators, it's the game-changer here. it's what we haven't been measuring. and i think it's why so many of the comments today were on let's not go back to a numbers game where we pretend that if we hit this number, it must mean that we have equitable opportunity to learn. you can be measuring things on that dashboard. the dashboard is absolutely crucial for us because when you have that collaboration betwee

. >> thank you, sir next speaker for general public comment good evening ms. brown. >> it's been a long evening but as usual i'm here to or here to talk about my son aubrey abrakasa like to use the overhead any son aubrey abrakasa what was mshtd august 14, 2006, and let me make sure they got it i have something wrong with it does it - >> it's there. >> oh. >> thank you. >> we'll start our time great. >> what happened to it was so big. >> okay. >> that's fine as i said before there is a 200 and $50,000 award issued by the mayor's office for the to catch the perpetrators that murdered any son mother's day is coming sunday and i'm not feeling that good about it it will not be a mother's day for me i don't have any child my only son that should be bringing me some flowers i don't have that so i'm here still keeping his memory alive and case alive this is a cold case now as i said everyone knows who killed any son i bring up and carry the thing that was george gascon he mentioned i know who killed my son the da knows who killed my son but nobody it doing anything about i