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By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto and Fred BackusAs pressure mounts on Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, many Americans think he should have to resign over the VA hospital scandal, a new CBS News poll released Thursday shows.The VA is roiled in scandal over allegations that numerous VA medical centers maintained secret wait stanley cups ing lists to conceal the number of patients who were not able to see doctors within a stanley deutschland 14-day period - a goal set by Shinseki to speed up veterans medical care.Shinseki: Whether I resign is up to ObamaForty-five percent think Shinseki should have to resign, while 31 percent don t think he should, and 24 percent don t know enough to say. Republicans 56 percent are particularly likely to say Shinseki should resign. Americans are also not particularly happy with Shinseki s stanley cup Commander-in-Chief, President Obama, who spoke about the scandal for the first time in three weeks on Wednesday. More Americans disapprove 45 percent than approve 29 percent of President Obama s handling of the problems at VA hospitals. Disapproval rises to 71 percent among Republicans. Americans are divided as to who they think is most to blame for the problems at Veterans Administration medical facilities, but Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and the VA 33 percent receive more blame than either local VA hospitals 28 percent or President Barack Obama 17 percent . About a quarter d Kosp Trump slams social media sites after Facebook bans
The most notable event on President Obama s schedule over the weekend was a meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva at the White House on Saturday.After the meeting, the president said: We have a very strong friendship between the two countries, but we can always make it stronger in areas like energy and biofuels, in the interest in increasing stanley cup the standards of living in impoverished countries throughout Latin America, expanding trade relationships -- you know, the President and I had a wonderful meeting of the minds. Mr. Obama also got the chance to show off the new swing set he bought for his daughters on the White House lawn. This is pretty spectacular, he said, as CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reported. The president made news in his weekly address, meanwhile, in the area of food safety. He announced the nominations of Margaret Hamburg, a former New York City Health Commissioner, as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and Baltimore Health Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein as her deputy. He also said he was creating a Food Safety Working Group. Food safety is something I take seriously, not just as your president, but as a parent, Mr. Obama said. When I heard peanut products were being contaminated earlier this year, I immediately thought of my 7-year old daughter, Sasha, who has peanut but stanley cup ter sandwiches for lunch probably three times a week. No parent should have to worry that stanley us their
By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto and Fred BackusAs pressure mounts on Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, many Americans think he should have to resign over the VA hospital scandal, a new CBS News poll released Thursday shows.The VA is roiled in scandal over allegations that numerous VA medical centers maintained secret wait stanley cups ing lists to conceal the number of patients who were not able to see doctors within a stanley deutschland 14-day period - a goal set by Shinseki to speed up veterans medical care.Shinseki: Whether I resign is up to ObamaForty-five percent think Shinseki should have to resign, while 31 percent don t think he should, and 24 percent don t know enough to say. Republicans 56 percent are particularly likely to say Shinseki should resign. Americans are also not particularly happy with Shinseki s stanley cup Commander-in-Chief, President Obama, who spoke about the scandal for the first time in three weeks on Wednesday. More Americans disapprove 45 percent than approve 29 percent of President Obama s handling of the problems at VA hospitals. Disapproval rises to 71 percent among Republicans. Americans are divided as to who they think is most to blame for the problems at Veterans Administration medical facilities, but Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and the VA 33 percent receive more blame than either local VA hospitals 28 percent or President Barack Obama 17 percent . About a quarter d Kosp Trump slams social media sites after Facebook bans
The most notable event on President Obama s schedule over the weekend was a meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva at the White House on Saturday.After the meeting, the president said: We have a very strong friendship between the two countries, but we can always make it stronger in areas like energy and biofuels, in the interest in increasing stanley cup the standards of living in impoverished countries throughout Latin America, expanding trade relationships -- you know, the President and I had a wonderful meeting of the minds. Mr. Obama also got the chance to show off the new swing set he bought for his daughters on the White House lawn. This is pretty spectacular, he said, as CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reported. The president made news in his weekly address, meanwhile, in the area of food safety. He announced the nominations of Margaret Hamburg, a former New York City Health Commissioner, as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and Baltimore Health Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein as her deputy. He also said he was creating a Food Safety Working Group. Food safety is something I take seriously, not just as your president, but as a parent, Mr. Obama said. When I heard peanut products were being contaminated earlier this year, I immediately thought of my 7-year old daughter, Sasha, who has peanut but stanley cup ter sandwiches for lunch probably three times a week. No parent should have to worry that stanley us their
