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are recognized. mr. roe: i rise in support of h.r. 3657, as amended. v.a. provides headstones and markers for the spouses or dependent children veterans who are inturned at no charge but the v.a. is not authorized to provide headstones or markers for spouses and dependent children who are inturned in tribal veteran cemeteries. this is not right. there is no reasons veterans and their families who are in tribal veteran cemeteries doesn't receive the same benefits as those who decide to use national or state veteran cemeteries. h.r. 3657 would allow v.a. to provide headstones and markers or eligible family members who are in tribal veteran cemeteries. i want to thank representative poll quinn. his district a tribal veteran cemetery. urge my colleagues to support will be given the same recognition as those in national or state veteran cemeteries. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. takano: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker

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are now experiencing. been a hopeful terrible experience for. the for the claim itself to the v.a. to get it either compensated or to get medical treatment. is going to home. they. are not there no matter what the city. most of their employees are angry and surely. they don't want to know why going there i always thought that they would be the best care and the reality. down it depends on who you get is a provider but the bureaucracy at the v.a. for me is what has been a nightmare to deal with getting bills from the labs for a thousand two thousand dollars for blood work and staff call in the v.a. tell them i'm keep getting these bills call in the lab company the v.a. supposed to pay these bills and they don't and you're already sick with chemo and radiation also that all these bills are coming at you nobody is paying them. i mean i mean right now we're quarter million dollars in debt from cancer cost we're bankrupt. and the v.a. still denies my claim that it's not this is not a. exposures. the politicians the congressional people that we sought to help us unfortunate drop us like t

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v.a. they are often gs-4 and 5 employees. of course, we have to always be vigilant in monitoring our systems and retraining and improving, but this does not necessarily represent that the v.a. has fallen back to the problems we had in 2014. far from that. we're making progress. we still have a ways to go. we will stick at this until we get this better and better. but each day, i think we're getting better. >> one aspect of that is the notion of whistleblowers. and there are still a lot of my colleagues have reported that whistleblowers still feel retaliation is an issue. which would go back to dealing with issues like secret wait lists and things of that nature. not necessarily that issue, but a whole range of other issues. what reforms are you instituting to make sure whistleblowers are protected, to make sure the system becomes better? >> one of the very first executive orders that president trump signed and that i had asked him to support was to allow me to establish the office of whistleblower protection and accountability

but doctors at the v.a. aret show signs of improving because the federal government still classifies marijuana as an illegal drug with no medicinal value. >> if the weed works, then get them weed! buy it for them! call that bike messenger in brooklyn! you know, the one covered in tattoos, but not the one who wants to stop and smoke the weed with you. these men and women have suffered enough! or, if you really want to honor our veterans, you can take steps not to create more veterans. because ever since 9/11, the government has had the power to send troops wherever they want in the name of fighting terrorism, even to countries we didn't even know existed until we found out we had troops there. >> the investigation continues into the deaths of the four soldiers killed during a reconnaissance mission in niger, western africa. some members of congress admit they were unaware of the actual number of u.s. forces on the ground there. >> i didn't know there was 1,000 troops in niger. >> you heard senator graham-- he did

v.a. employees are putting our veterans first. legislation that updates and modernizes the v.a. benefits claims and appeals process, reducing wait times for our veterans. additionally, one of my top priorities is ensuring that our veterans have access to health care options closer to their homes and their families. this includes improving veterans' access to services under the veterans choice program and building on the success of the veterans care coordination initiative at the fargo v.a. medical center in my own state. this effort has decreased the wait times, scheduling and appointment under veterans choice from 24 days a year ago to five or six days at present. this initiative can serve as a model to help address delays through the veterans choice program across the nation. we've invited secretary shulkin from north dakota to see this work firsthand. our care core work initiative has been expanded to the v.a. facility in helena, montana, as well and believe it will be expanded to other locations across the country. we provided expansion to the veterans choice program earlier

v.a. licensing requirements are different. as long as a doctor is in good standing in any state, they can practice in-person care within the v.a. system in any state. this is not -- this resip rossity is not afforded to telehealth. these seeking to provide telehealth to patients must be licensed in the state where the patient is he kated. hese outdated -- since 2002, more than two million veterans have received telehealth care through the v.a. in 2016 alone, more than 1% of veterans receiving v.a. care utilized telehealth in some aspect. 45% of these veterans live in rural areas. veterans who have access to telehealth are overwhelmingly pleased with the quality of care and access they received. those receiving at-home care, for example, through telehealth cite an 88% satisfaction rate. while the v.a. has done a great job of expanding telehealth across access to veterans across the country, more needs to be done. our veten -- veterans deserve the best care available to them and this starts with the passage of the vets act. i tha

after the fifth match day the german president of the football association was unaware that the v.a. are is what we're calling the video assistance was in power more and that was outrageous everyone fans at matches don't see what is going on they just see a break in the action and they get outraged briefly that the fever is looking at whether to use this in twenty eighteen for the world cup what do you think's going to come i think that's a little too soon to implement this because this is still in its testing phase and everyone around german football is upset dieter hacking is one quote from watching law by he doesn't even think the v.a.r. will be in place after the winter break so considering the world cup starts in june they have to fix all the bugs before they think about putting this in the biggest football stage we know the world cup i think president thank you ok. sunday like game we mentioned fallsburg hadn't lost since martin schmidt took over in september but they hadn't won either the woes faced off he has had to balance over the weekend with both clubs desperate for success.

v.a. money. some are confused by the letters they receive. others are told by the v.a. that they've missed important deadlines to dispute, to seek forgiveness, or to create a payment plan for the alleged debt. regardless of whether the debt is real or a mistake by the v.a., we shouldn't make it so hard for veterans to know their rights and obligations. we've seen single moms who can't get a home loan and newly transitioned service members who struggle to reintegrate with their garnished pay. recoup tax returns, and reduced disability payments. all because of a -- of assigned debts they knew nothing about after notifications got sent to the wrong place or, quote, lost in the mail. in response, h.r. 3705 directs the v.a. to work with veteran service organizations to develop a standard notification letter that is written in plain language. it also directs the v.a. to explore how to inform veterans of debts more quickly by sending notifications electronically, like an email, in addition to standard mail. and it requires the v.a. to study why so many veterans have not receiv

v.a. has made it a priority to address this problem, there are still many combat veterans left without access to v.a. mental health care services. here is what we know. an average of 20 veterans commit suicide daily. a veteran -- v.a. evidence suggests a decrease in suicide risk among those who have received v.a. health care services, and in may, 2017, the government accountability office found that 62% of the over 91,000 service members who were separated from misconduct from 2011 to 2015 had been diagnosed with ptsd, t.b.i. or other conditions that would be associated with misconduct. 13,282 veterans 23% or received an other than honorable discharge, leaving them without access to v.a.'s critical mental health care services. as a marine corps combat veteran, i'd like to live by the rule we never leave anyone behind. unfortunately, the military routinely use the other than honorable discharge to rid itself of combat veterans who were designated as having disciplinary problems and who often had documented medical histories of ptsd. rather than providing them with the treatment and rehabilitat

you are right, do not thank me for my service, go to the v.a. spital as cd veterans who are dying alone. do not give up on america, you in texas. when donald trump is our president, you have to build your bread, go make your company great again. that's filled your brand, go make your cover the gradient. -- build your brand, go make your company great again. i finished it my senior year in high school and went to the u.s. army. proud. my grandmother she struggled with my little brother at past last year. i had a complete change in my perspective of life. my second point, america still great. for the knowledge seeker. for those lost in thought with consumerism as a god, consumerism as a king, as enslavement. you can tell by the veterans memorial you are showing today, no crowd. point, the dumbing down of america has been intentional. 1968, it wasfrom directly correlated to try to disenfranchise the black people. i do not want to make this political. as a descendent of a slave and a dysfunctionality in which i was raised in, we are still suffering f

we are paying the v.a. to do. if i take my veteran off and put my conservative hat on, my fiscal conservative heat on, this is a band-aid fix to a tourniquet problem. i look at it as just a campaign win, the effectiveness isn't there. oh, and by the way, the v.a. doesn't pay out very well. so, if you do go find a doctor under that program the chances of keeping them or getting them paid are pretty slim. there is a lot more still to do. i hate to be raining on the parade but see some effective and actual changes that make lives better. ainsley: katie, i want to ask you, u.s. marine corps veteran and vice president of operations at self-made. do you think the president is following through with his promises and what about the v.a. hospitals? how are they now. >> i do think he ran on the platform to fix the v.a. is spot on. shulkin made inroads in accountability, modernizing the v.a. access to care. everything is headed in the right direction. i do believe in what he said, there is still a lot of time that need

v.a. employees are putting our veterans first. legislation that updates and modernizes the v.a. benefits claims and appeals process, reducing wait times for our veterans. additionally, one of my top priorities is ensuring that our veterans have access to health care options closer to their homes and their families. this includes improving veterans' access to services under the veterans choice program and building on the success of the veterans care coordination initiative at the fargo v.a. medical center in my own state. this effort has decreased the wait times, scheduling and appointment under veterans choice from 24 days a year ago to five or six days at present. this initiative can serve as a model to help address delays through the veterans choice program across the nation. we've invited secretary shulkin from north dakota to see this work firsthand. our care core work initiative has been expanded to the v.a. facility in helena, montana, as well and believe it will be expanded to other locations across the country. we provided expansion to the veterans choice program earlier

>> the be there campaign recognizes most receiveterans t their life are not getting care in the v.a. when you do get care your rate of suicide is much lower. we are reaching out to all organizations, to communities, to churches and asking people to be able to recognize when people may need help and connecting them with help with the right resources. we don't believe any veteran should be left alone to suffer the way that they are. >> secretary, as we have said before, you are always welcome here to talk about what matters to veterans and their care. thank you for being with us. >> and happy veterans day to all of our veterans and families out there. >> indeed. thank you for your service. be well, sir. alisyn. >>> up next, accusations of sexual misconduct against judge roy moore. feel that tingle of a cold sore coming on? only abreva can heal it in as little as two and a half days when used at the first sign. abreva starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. abreva acts on it. so you can too. i enjoy the fresher things in life.o. fresh towels. fresh soaps.

wouldn't have been able to get medical treatment for possible mental health issues by the by the v.a. we are now understand that the local residents intervened in this case shooting at the attacker and chasing him down in their vehicles tell us more about that. yeah that's what happened i mean that after the that the gunman left the church he was he was he was confronted by a fire a local resident who then gave chase in his car and it was a car chase and. the gunman was fired at by the local residents and then apparently the gunman at some point practice critical and. apparently died from a self-inflicted who was then he was also kind of this shocked by this by this. resident two who confronted him after coming out of the church. you know thank you very much did always make a nigga there joining us from san antonio texas. a new study of confidential documents has been leaked to a german newspaper exposing tax avoidance by v.i.p.'s and corporations as right terry they're calling it the paradise paper's thirteen point four million files revealing an impressive list of corporations and individu

v.a. is divided some are for removing the trees others say leave the forest alone. it's ok to clear the forest otherwise we have to get our wood from far away it's better than letting it rot. took a bit too long back to the beach now you have to go home where they're chopping down trees and destroying our ancient forest. i was born here and i'm against it the fight to pay my own. nature conservationists locals and forest ranges each has their own idea about how best to serve the far east of. the two environmental activists are shocked to see felled trees in europe's last primeval forest and they will continue to fight to protect it they believe this polish forest can contribute to fighting climate change the twenty eight un climate conference will be held in the heart of poland's coal mining industry and the town of kut of its in a move that has activists hoping the country will begin to transition away from fossil fuels. it was two years ago on another great evening in paris that one hundred thirty people lost their lives and hundreds more were wounded in a series

v.a.'s social workers and others who are here today. but this is that public-private partnership that he's talking about. and this wouldn't have happened without the district of columbia and without private resources, but this is such a great model. we want to do more of this. this is really what we want to see for the other 40,000, but we know that if it's not a sustained effort, that this will just go backwards. so this is probably a lifelong effort that we're committing to. >> any other media inquiries? ok. >> i have a comment. >> sure. >> you mentioned 40,000 veterans. 40,000 veterans in the streets. and that's pretty alarming, but a lot of it may have to do with something on the secrecy level where they're using electronic gadgets, secret gadgets on people's minds, brain waves in the middle of the night and pushing them out in the street also. microwaves. sonic waves. a case in point would be the cuban diplomatic crisis where they said the tactics were not cuban. they were others. it's in apartment buildings, motels, hotels, houses

v.a. community care team thought we need to talk to veterans, first and foremost. they are the center of everything that we do. we have to talk to v.a. staff and clinicians. not just the nurses and the doctors but also the administrators, the clerks, the schedulers. we need to talk to those that represent the interest of veterans across the country that may represent pieces that we don't. and the community of health care providers. we need to learn from other institutions about what works for them and apply it to the department. we went through this process of actively engaging and learning from all of these different stakeholders and then listening. that was really important. take the feedback and put it to use. the snap is see in we held a couple of roundtables and a couple of listening sessions. we had our team that went across the country. they were in those geographies anyway and they set up listening sessions and ways to walk through the process and learn about what was going on. this was very important. we conducted interviews, conducted data-gathering exercises. tha

they are usually thrown in the nursing homes and subjected to abuse. i fought the v.a. system for over a year and a half to get my spouse placed into the baltimore v.a. where i felt she could be safe. is egregious. ofen's services in the state maryland are almost negligible. anything to do with homeless, but it has to do with the treatment of women vets in the state of maryland. host: let's hear from jaspen boothe. guest: i don't think you should have to hit rock bottom in order to get supportive services. i have noticed through my advocacy some veterans who need that temporary support can't get it until they are actually homeless. i don't think we should be placing anyone into that state of despair. you mentioned earlier 70% of the homeless demographic have substance abuse problems. you have to think if they have substance abuse problems before they were homeless? actually getting homeless driving to alcohol and drug abuse? are we causing more problems by waiting too long? the solution to homelessness isn't more homes, it is less homeless veterans. we have studied the

pre-9/11 tending to issues that are associated with age although veterans are at higher risk for some of those conditions. the v.a. was a leader to do research on veteran caregivers are rammed the aids-related conditions of dementia but the challenge to get research conducted is to have awareness of what needs to be studied so awareness also funding available to implement studies on a specific population n or r disease or clinical condition area as we look toward better solutions to improve the care we can provide for a specific population then care givers are that offshoot population served so we're hopeful by bringing attention and crafting the blueprint we could get this facilitation to fill in those knowledge gaps. >> i want to reiterate the things expressed to each of you for your testimony. this cannot be easy or the way you want to spend your day providing testimony in a senate hearing if i was struck by the personal reflections each of you had of the challenge of caregiving with your own experience the very you said early about getting the diagnosis was a sucker punch and what that was like for you or any

v.a. employees. one third of whom are veterans. thank you, jeff.n here in front is tom from newtown, a booby trap sent him flying through the air. he spent the tet offensive in the hospital. after vietnam, he served nine years in the marine corps reserves before switching services and joining the national guard as a medic. he is retired now. tom credits the vet center in silver spring, maryland for saving his life. he showed up one day at his with an but the center staff brought him back from the brink. you and the other veterans, welcome home. [applause] next, inbox 40 in the back is bill scott of marlowe, oklahoma. would you stand? ok. coming up, there. great. true to his roots, as a proud member of the chickasaw nation, he fudged his worth a to enlist in the national guard when he was just 16. when the korean war broke out, he could have used his young age to get out of going. he deployed to korea in 1951. despite his age, bill was made a squad leader and promoted to staff sergeant. he served nine months in combat before returning home to go bac

v.a. at the time. i was able to say a few words. it is something i will never forget. are theeally remember thousands of vietnam veterans that came in and their families and just wanted to be there. and when they had the chance to go up in touch the wall, touch the names, something i will never forget. host: let's put the phone numbers on the bottom of our screen. one life for vietnam veterans only. (202) 748-8000. (202) 748-8001 for all others. pilot,st was a u.s. navy the first american aviator shot dead over vietnam and the longest held prisoner of war in north vietnam for about 8.5 years. take us back to that day in 1964. what happened and what was it like for you? guest: august 5, 1964 is the day i was shot down. it was the first strike into north vietnam. i was involved the night before with the controversial torpedo attacks on two destroyers. i was the one that came down with the flares and lit up the sky. that remains controversial to this day. the next day i was in the first strike. there were two airplanes that were shot down. fortunately i survived by a miracle

v.a. employees. one third of whom are veterans. thank you, jeff.wn here in front is tom devlin from pennsylvania. marines ind in the 1966, two years later he was a rifleman in vietnam when a booby-trapped send him flying through the air. he's that the tet offensive in the hospital did after vietnam, he served nine years in the marine corps reserves before switching services and joining the air national guard as a medic. he is retired now, after 27 years of active service or the credits the effect --vet center with saving his life. the vet center staff roster him back from the brink. tom to you and all other vietnam veterans, welcome home. next, inbox 40 in the back is bill scott of, oklahoma. would you stand. true to his roots as a member of built firstw nation his birthday to enlist in the national guard when he was 16. the korean war broke out he couldn't use his young age to get out of going but he didn't get he deployed to korea with the 45th infantry division in 1951 despite his age, he was made a squad leader and was promoted to staff sergean

v.a. employees. one third of whom are veterans. thank you, jeff.n here in front is tom from newtown, a booby trap sent him flying through the air. he spent the tet offensive in the hospital. after vietnam, he served nine years in the marine corps reserves before switching services and joining the national guard as a medic. he is retired now. tom credits the vet center in silver spring, maryland for saving his life. he showed up one day at his with an but the center staff brought him back from the brink. you and the other veterans, welcome home. [applause] next, inbox 40 in the back is bill scott of marlowe, oklahoma. would you stand? ok. coming up, there. great. true to his roots, as a proud member of the chickasaw nation, he fudged his worth a to enlist in the national guard when he was just 16. when the korean war broke out, he could have used his young age to get out of going. he deployed to korea in 1951. despite his age, bill was made a squad leader and promoted to staff sergeant. he served nine months in combat before returning home to go bac

v.a. health are for all americans except much more than the v.a. provides, because everybody's forced to be in it. i was amazed as an exchange student in the soviet union to see the type of medical care that was in the soviet union in the 1970's, and i just thank god that we didn't have that kind of socialized medicine. we were so much more advanced. but it was clear that physicians back in the soviet union in the 1970's, i'm sure there were some that were really, really dedicated. but for most, it was an 8:00 to 4:00, 9:00 to 5:00 type job and the fewer people they had to see the better they liked it. that means people had to wait in line, couldn't get seen. they didn't get the procedures they need. in canada, one told me his dad died of a heart attack after he had been on the list to get bypass surgery for two years. and i said, two years, it really took that long? he said, well, they kept moving people in front of him. i said, wait a minute, i understood it was a crime to pay or do anything to get yourself moved up the list. he said, oh, yeah. i

v.a. officials are slow to investigate the doctors who are reported. >> this is part of a deal to get themausing problems at the v.a. but it was threatening civilian medical system as well. jillian: the agency says it will comply with recommendations to improve operations. apparently christmas is just too white. black lives matter chapter is planning a black christmas initiative urging people to only buy from black-owned businesses throughout this holiday season. a los angeles group calling on people to boycott white-owned businesses and instead use their money to invest in the black community. organizers say president trump elm bodies white capitalism and the boycott is their way of resisting. a man sleeping inside a dumb ter gets stuck inside a garbage truck it took firefighters over two hours to reach of the man who was buried under bags and loose trash in philadelphia. the ordeal happened outside of a group home that served as interim stop before prisoners are released. authorities say the man escaped from the home. prison officials say no one was miss from the role call. the man was t

the pouring out of these pits are toxic and dangerous so while troops may survive the battle they may also be poisoned. in september two thousand and four. i notice. the v.a. clinic instead of seeing old caucasian men with meal chairs and oxygen who are in their eighty's. the entire composition of the waiting room changed. full of young women and men of all ethnicities and they're all in their twenty's back from their first year long deployment in iraq. the typical service member came in with an inability to complete a two mile run within regulation time. most of them had already had a traditional work up for pulmonary disease including x. rays c.t. scans primary function testing all of these studies returned normal or near normal in almost every case. it was subtle because these service members complained of shortness of breath with exertion but their x. rays and pomery function tests indicated that they shouldn't have any disability at all that doctors are throwing up their hands and saying what would cause a twenty seven year all man to have the long. long journeys are a respiratory condition eighty five year old man and they started pointing to their

v.a. did a horrible misservice to vietnam veterans. i think things are way better now.e've developed a bunch of new treatmen treatments for things like prolonged exposure, and cognitive processing therapies, which are helpful. i think that the most component of providing services is creating a safe and secure environment for people's stories to be heard. >> a lot of terrible suffering was at war, and that's what we know. that doesn't go away. i wish i could make that go away, and it hasn't, right? it's still there. and we still have a lot of work to do. >> ptsd tends to be a waxing and waning condition, and with really, really good support, you can manage it, and you can do well. and i think that's especially true for people who have experienced a great deal of trauma, a lot of combat. >> i see there are a lot of people here who want to talk to you. so let's go ahead and go to the audience. >> i'm bob swanson. vietnam veteran. i was in 1965. i was aboard the uss bennington, headed to vietnam. what is it going to take to get the v.a. to recognize medical cannabis as a le

v.a. and how veterans are being served by our country. s issue intimately. there is a new house bill being debated that was recently pulled from mark up. some feel like it doesn't fulfill completely the president's promise of true choice. the president promised on the campaign trail if you want to see a v.a. doctor you can. or you can go see a private provider is the choice of the veteran. what is your view of any bill coming out of house and senate? should it truly give the choice to the veteran as the president promised? >> one of the things, pete, that is working well in washington is a bipartisan approach to fixing the v.a. and it has taken us decades to essentially have all of these problems in the v.a. that we're now dealing with and it's not going to be fixed overnight. i've been clear about that. but we are committed to giving veterans more choice in their decisions. they deserve the very best. and so we're looking for a bill that builds choice into a permanent part of the way that we take care of veterans and veterans have service

marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the burn pits would really literally send a v.a. broke and they don't want to pay it so the way to the decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay and. call for help and get the middle finger to move used to model is. delayed and i hope you die . because there's a survival guide up stay single malt going to start family credit all the service. the seriousness there are you going to get it back. oh heck no but this is a repatriation scheme where we get the rest in seven years. still if the separate cars kaiser of course. and we're back talking to secretary general mohammad. or excellence in international energy agency actually says the high prices are also linked to the fact that there were storms and cataclysms in the gulf of mexico and all producers were obliged to shut down the production temporarily but once it all gets back on its feet and the cataclysm subsides i think it's only logical the production you know will continue even more eagerly so what if that happens because you all have the guaran

v.a. the more we discovered this is a growing problem. veterans are getting bills, scary bills of tens of thousands of dollars. mostly due to change in the accounting system. but as we discovered in in this case, the numbers were just plain wrong. the petty officer served in the navy, naval r 1985. but it was ethnic cleansing and sniper fire he saw while deployed in 1999 in bosnia that haunted him for years. >> i -- -- [inaudible] >> it took a while to admit he had post traumatic stress disorder. >> i had ptsd. it took me almost ten years to submit myself to the v.a. and say can you help me? >> the memories echoed by his wife. >> if this hadn't changed we might not be together. i don't want the kids to be subjected to this. >> the private doctor wrote to the v.a. backing him up. he has ptsd. but the v.a. disagreed and denied the claim. to add insult to injury they sent him a bill for more than $22,000. why? the v.a. didn't ex hit the phones to get answers for him. >> mr. sevino, good to see you. "7 on your side" has some news that could change your li