House Committee on Veterans' Affairs

Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Hearing
on the Effectiveness and Strategic Planning of
Veterans Employment and Training Service Program

Opening and Closing Statements of
Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Terry Everett

	Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL), Ranking Democratic Member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, makes her opening statement while Chairman Terry Everett (R-AL) listens.
	The Subcommittee first heard from Carlotta C. Joyner, center, Director of Operations, Health, Education and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office.
	A panel of veterans’ officials included, from left, James B. Hubbard, Director, National Economics Commission, The American Legion; Anthony L. Baskerville, Deputy National Service Director For Employment, Disabled American Veterans; James N. Magill, Director, National Employment Policy, Veterans of Foreign Wars; and Calvin Gross, Chairman of Employment Training and Business Opportunities Committee and Director of Government Relations, Vietnam Veterans of America.

Also testifying were Espiridion A. Borrego, top, Assistant Secretary for Veterans Employment and Training, Department of Labor; and Ronald W. Drach, former Commissioner, Commission On Service Members and Veterans Transition Assistance.