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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama s choice to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs pledged Tuesday to transform the beleaguered agency, saying that systematic failures must be addressed.Robert McDonald cited problems with patient access to health care, transparency, accountability and integrity, among other issues. The seriousness of the moment demands urgent action, McDonald told the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. There is a lot of work to do to transform the department and it will not be easy, but it is essential and can be achieved. McDonald, 61, a former Proc stanley mugs ter Gamble CEO and an Army veteran, said taking care of veterans is personal for him. His father served in the Army Air Corps after World War II, and his wife s father was shot down over Europe and survived harsh treatment as a prisoner of war. Another relative was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam and receives care from the VA, McDonald said, and a nephew is in the Air Force, deploye stanley us d in the Middle East. Headlines at 7:30: VA chief requests $17 billion for clinics, staff 01:36 stanley kubek Bad blood boils over at VA hearing 02:27 Dyny Reid Cautious On A Lieberman Decision
Hillary Rodham Clinton has doubled her lead in Pennsylvania and now has a majority of Democratsrsquo; support, according to a new poll out today. Clinton now leads Barack Obama 51 to 35 percent among likely Democratic primary voters, according to the Franklin and Marshall College Poll. In February, the same poll found that Clinton was ahead by half that margin, 44 to 37 percent. The Franklin and Marshall survey comes o stanley cup usa n the heels of a poll by Quinnipiac University released Tuesday. It also showed Clinton doubling her lead, with 53 to 41 percent over Obama this week, up from 49 to 43 percent in late February. The Franklin and Marshall poll was conducted in Pennsylvania a stanley trinkflaschen fter the controversial video of the Rev. Jeremiah Wrightmdash;the retired pastor of Obamarsquo church in Chicagomdash;was widely aired on television and the Internet. Another survey of likely Democratic primary voters on March 15 and 16, by Public Policy Polling, s stanley cup price howed Clinton with a 56 to 30 percent lead over Obama. In that, as in the Franklin and Marshall survey, Clinton was making small inroads among blacks, winning 27 percent of their support. She led 63 to 23 percent among whites. Before this month, Obama was gaining ground in Pennsylvania. But it now appears he has returned to a distant second. The Clinton campaign hopes to make the Pennsylvania contest a referendum on Obamarsquo electability. Obama still has more delegates, and his campaign is loo
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama s choice to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs pledged Tuesday to transform the beleaguered agency, saying that systematic failures must be addressed.Robert McDonald cited problems with patient access to health care, transparency, accountability and integrity, among other issues. The seriousness of the moment demands urgent action, McDonald told the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. There is a lot of work to do to transform the department and it will not be easy, but it is essential and can be achieved. McDonald, 61, a former Proc stanley mugs ter Gamble CEO and an Army veteran, said taking care of veterans is personal for him. His father served in the Army Air Corps after World War II, and his wife s father was shot down over Europe and survived harsh treatment as a prisoner of war. Another relative was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam and receives care from the VA, McDonald said, and a nephew is in the Air Force, deploye stanley us d in the Middle East. Headlines at 7:30: VA chief requests $17 billion for clinics, staff 01:36 stanley kubek Bad blood boils over at VA hearing 02:27 Dyny Reid Cautious On A Lieberman Decision
Hillary Rodham Clinton has doubled her lead in Pennsylvania and now has a majority of Democratsrsquo; support, according to a new poll out today. Clinton now leads Barack Obama 51 to 35 percent among likely Democratic primary voters, according to the Franklin and Marshall College Poll. In February, the same poll found that Clinton was ahead by half that margin, 44 to 37 percent. The Franklin and Marshall survey comes o stanley cup usa n the heels of a poll by Quinnipiac University released Tuesday. It also showed Clinton doubling her lead, with 53 to 41 percent over Obama this week, up from 49 to 43 percent in late February. The Franklin and Marshall poll was conducted in Pennsylvania a stanley trinkflaschen fter the controversial video of the Rev. Jeremiah Wrightmdash;the retired pastor of Obamarsquo church in Chicagomdash;was widely aired on television and the Internet. Another survey of likely Democratic primary voters on March 15 and 16, by Public Policy Polling, s stanley cup price howed Clinton with a 56 to 30 percent lead over Obama. In that, as in the Franklin and Marshall survey, Clinton was making small inroads among blacks, winning 27 percent of their support. She led 63 to 23 percent among whites. Before this month, Obama was gaining ground in Pennsylvania. But it now appears he has returned to a distant second. The Clinton campaign hopes to make the Pennsylvania contest a referendum on Obamarsquo electability. Obama still has more delegates, and his campaign is loo
