senator tillis: yeah. i'd like to get that and if possible on a -- to the extent that information is available, geographically what we're talking about if i have any other instances in north carolina i'd like to know about it but i'm sure the other members would be interested as well in each of their states. i would like that in particularly as we go through this process for those that were granted deferred status. if there is a decision either because they've come up in the audit to continue to allow them to have the deferred status or that it's been rescinded, i'd like to get the information on both of those. secretary johnson: thank you. we'll look at that. is there any reason why you can't say as i said in my opening statement that there's been 282 rescinded? secretary johnson: thank you for refreshing my recollection. i believe that that is the correct number, yes. senator grassley: i believe that's the correct number. secretary johnson: i apologize. senator tillis: does that mean it's an exhaustive l

and tilly in particular and your entire team and i know that it has been years in the making. and mr. fisher for their work with our ta and i think that that relationship has been amazing and certainly is helpful for my office and so thank you, for all of your hard work. and mr. fisher, and i think that this is, you know, this is the beginning of what i think is going to be a lot of the future, and the major transportation project and really a demonstration going forward as well about what the public, private partnerships can do and it is not without bumps in the road and i know that our ta and mr. lee have been working with the trust very hard and they have been, a landlord that has ste warded their land carefully to say the least. but, it is, i think that it is an amazing testimony of the per severe ans that we have gotten to where we are today and in the terms of the closure in a few weeks, by the way, is that the four and this final meeting last night? >> the final meet? ing >> it is may 28th. >> it is. ju. so everyone is aware it it is going to start on thursday, ten p.m.

mine is that we don't take the time to thank the authority staff and i want to say that david and tilly and maria are awesome and there is often not a day that i do not talk to one of these people over here and there are 7:00 a.m. kitchen calls about the issues and we do work together as a team and i think that there will be great things between the mta and the authority in the upcoming years and there is definitely work to do and they are working on improving the allegation process and i know that all of you are work og that and they are committed to making the authority the best organization that can be for san francisco. >> and i wanted to take the opportunity to thank them and they have been a great partner and there is more work to do but it has been a great five years, thanks. >> thank you so much for your service and your refreshing public comment, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and i am chief deputy and if he comes back and sings the comments to you, and i just wanted to thanks him for for us and he has helped, work with him, and the mta to really transform the finance an

. >> senator tillis. >> thank you, mr. chair. ms. neuberger, or mr. lord, i want to look back at the program. i'm from north carolina. i was speaker of the house down there, worked a lot with the there is school system. we have one in 15 in north carolina and they seem to be both for and against the third attrition program in terms of if you like the outcome, but they did like the overhead for the didn't necessarily like how the regulations required of them to implement it, that the level of details involved. as their been any work done on time to figure out how we can come if we're measuring outcomes, that's a question i have for you mr. lord. i know you're going to the gao going through with the verification process making sure that people who are entitled to it did come and those who don't, don't. but what about the more fundamental question of the baseline when this program started, the year-over-year improvement in outcomes which at the end of the day of his children's health and making sure that they are fed. are we measuring those in a scientif

we report from chan tilly, virginia where family and friends were waiting to welcome the emergency responders back home. >> reporter: they have waited for these hugs and kisses for almost three long weeks. >> it is great to be home. >> it is good to be back and just see their faces. we haven't seen them in quite some time now and just to be able to share some time with them. >> every time you see a kid or someone injured or to be able to pull somebody out of a pile, it hit home. it makes you think about your family, the american people, but we're very fortunate that we're able to go help. >> reporter: the team helped pull a 15-year-old buried for five days in the rubble. >> he saved a life! >> reporter: after the second quake, they rescued a 41-year- old woman trapped in a four- story building. the team further helped the injured, rebuild infrastructure and stabilize the iconickic temple in kathmandu. the nepal people and the united states overcome with emotion, wanted to personally thank the team. >> the heros are back home today. we are really, really, really thankful for them, what they di

tilly gets a win out of all this. improving his rerd to 5 and 2 and giants come out with a victory.ngt oakland if home day gamehis season. max with a double. reddick in the sixth with a 2 going game. doublef his own scoring the with 4 runs ifhe sec. jesse kid never got again more than 7 innings this year. complete game. first complete game of the year. bullpen stayed in the bullpen which is goo news. a's win 4 notng. won 3 straight for the first time thisear and get closer off the dl tomorrow. game 5 western conference final duck led 4-2 and blackhawk captain the scored 2 goals in the final 2 minutes. to send him to over time but extra session didn't go long. 45 seconds n.pull up the rae bound. if he scores. game over drive home safely. pile open top of eh other because we are men. that's what we do. we jump up and down. lead the series 3 games to 2. 7 sports brought to you by toyota. open steff he want through concussion protocol talk about that earlier road the bikeo get heart rate up. balance tt. doctors and trainers gave him ahumb up. >> speaking of the news conference he sooind

senator tillis. >> thank you mr. chair. thank you all for being here. just a couple of things. one is based on a comment here earlier about there are some here in the senate that are thinking that we should completely privatize the va. i honestly have not had a single serious discussion with any member that saw that as an end state, and if they did, if anyone here did, all they need to do is spend some time in the vas to understand the unique nature of what the va has to offer. there is no other more welcoming place for a veteran than the va. not that there aren't opportunities for private care. there clearly are already. the non-va care is a very significant part of what all do every day long before choice was ever implemented. choice is just another safety valve. so, you know, i realize in these committee meetings sometimes our words carry more weight than perhaps they should, but i don't think anybody should leave this committee meeting thinking that anybody here has any serious goal or objective to privatize the entire va. i want to go back to the point that senator blument

tillis: thank you mr. president. i'm not the senator from florida but i was a senator who was born in florida. with due respect to my friend, senator nelson, there was something that the gentleman said but i had not thought about speaking on but i think that we have to. and it has to do with a bit of the shift in the thinking of this president unlike any other president for the last 40 years since the ayatollahs have come into power. and, mr. president, i should ask unanimous consent to speak for not more than five minutes. the presiding officer:. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. cardin: mr. president i hate to object. there's only ten minutes remaining and all the time on the republican side has been used up. could my colleague limit his comments to three minutes so i could have a little bit of time on our side? mr. tillis: yes mr. president. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. tillis: with the limited time first i'm concerned we've gone away with president after president saying iran can nev

for a broken pipeline created 10 square mile slick in the ocean and to local beaches close to their tilly's june 4th. the cleanup crews no longer talking in terms of zero mobile bidets weeks they're acknowledging now the work could take months. >> pam: today is memorial day the day that we all take time out to honor the men and women close surplus serve our country . >> pam: actions their families community came together on of the brave men and women from the five branches of u.s. armed forces that made the ultimate sacrifice giving their lives to keep americans save. and that at st. anthony's dining hall in san francisco today veterans are being honored this service many find themselves links and history and this holiday deserving of food and fun ship one organizer says one of five meals served it will go to a veteran. among"all day honors list fallen duty which is really in court here were also those parcel straddling and those that the allies are risk struggling to make ends meet and always one i have held for them. >> pam: dining room and expects to serve about 4200 people today. and pr

senator thom tillis of north carolina said, was honored to spend memorial day with veterans in gastoncounty. god bless our brave men and women in uniform. connecticut democrat jim himes tweeted out a photo this morning, beautiful memorial day in old greenwich. president obama said this is the first memorial day since the end of military operations in afghanistan, and the first memorial day since 9/11 that the u.s. is not involved in a major ground or. the ceremony at arlington national ceremony is 50 minutes.

senator tillis. >> thank you, mr. chair. thank you all for being here. just a couple of things. one is based on a comment here earlier about there are some here in the senate that are thinking that we should completely privatize the va. i honestly have not had a single serious discussion with any member that saw that as an end state, and if they did, if anyone here did, all they need to do is spend some time in the vas to understand the unique nature of what the va has to offer. there is no other more welcoming place for a veteran than the va. not that there aren't opportunities for private care. there clearly are already. the non-va care is a very significant part of what all do every day long before choice was ever implemented. choice is just another safety valve. so, you know, i realize in these committee meetings sometimes our words carry more weight than perhaps they should, but i don't think anybody should leave this committee meeting thinking that anybody here has any serious goal or objective to privatize the entire va. i want to go back to the point that senator blument

. >> senator tillis, i've been known to eat a brussel sprout or two but always with cheese on them. [ laughter ] >> mine's with bacon. >> well, with bacon and cheese it might work out but i have problems with the cheese but we don't want to go there. senator heitkamp? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for this important hearing, making sure our children have every opportunity to succeed is something i think the entire committee believes in and this is a good place to start when we're talking about child nutrition and basically giving them the opportunity to grow up healthy and learn throughout the day. nutrition standards set in the health and hungry kids act is an important first step to help creating a healthier and more prepared next generation. but we should also make sure that the schools have the tools they need to provide healthy meals. in north dakota, 100% of our schools, i'm proud to say, are meeting the standards and a couple of months ago only one school still had asks for a waiver on the whole grain pasta requirement. so that's pretty incredible in a state that has a

the act that senator burr and senator thom tillis are right now putting in the senate.eter: that was judith and north carolina. irish eyes tweets in. "i believe what nancy was referring to is the ability of all american jews to get instant israeli citizenship if they so chose." gabrielle is calling in from puerto rico. independent line p review are on "q&a." gabriel: good morning, c-span. in regard to the first caller, the democrat, she questioned whether 9/11 was a perpetrated act by her own government. and this is actually a very very, very tense topic. when searching and googling my studies i found out that the government and the u.s. state of defense actually approved a measure to instate terrorist acts within the united states on its own people in order to rise up political dissidents against cuba in the john f. kennedy days. so if the government was going to pass those and actually to get an invasion of cuba, it does not seem that far off that they would do it as recently as 2000. the second point i wanted to make was, again, the first caller stated. is israel and

. >> senator tillis? >> thank you mr. chair. ms. neuberger, or mr. lord, what to look back at the program. i'm from north carolina. i was speaker of the house down there, worked a lot with the there's a school systems. we have 115,000 in north carolina and they seem to be both for and against the food nutrition program in terms if you like the outcome but they did like the overread orbited necessarily like how the regulations required them to implement it, that the level of details involved. has there been any work done on trying to figure out how we can if we are measuring outcomes and that's the question i have for you, mr. lord. i know you're going through, the gao is going through the verification process making sure that people who are entitled to get it and those who don't, don't. but what about the more fundamental question of a baseline when this program started, a year over year improvement in outcomes which at the end of the day is children's health and ensure they are fed. are we measuring those in a scientific way? and identifying best pr

tillis: thank you mr. president. i wanted to speak about an amendment i have filed regarding a crisis we're experiencing in the h-2b visas. in north carolina we have a large seafood industry and we have a crisis shared by a number of other states with respect to the availability of h.r. 2 b visas in the busy time that's about to start in a couple of weeks. it's the worst possible time for this industry. we literally have jobs that have been created by people like don cross and bros and pamlico in north carolina, they simply can't find workers to do those jobs. it's going to ruin their business and it's unacceptable. these are jobs these folks have created like the crosses that can't be filled. the jobs are waiting to be filled. and it's affecting other businesses. we have in the shrimp and crab industries but also affecting other businesses, like grocery stores and restaurants and other industries like tourism across the country. the problem that i have and the nature of the amendment i'll speak to briefly but i've r