With Miller, in the House holding attack only hearings, and Burr as minority using attack only questions, in the Senate, both ranking members of Veterans Affairs Committee's, as leads in the continued obstruction!!
Reid: House GOP holding up VA talks
15 July 2014 - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday accused House Republicans of impeding the negotiations over legislation to fix the troubled Veterans Affairs Department.
Lawmakers serving on a House-Senate conference committee are having “trouble” finding a deal on on legislation because of GOP objections, Reid said during a press conference without providing specifics.
“We're having a little trouble getting the House to help us complete the conference,” Reid said.. “You know ... just because we want something done when we're in conference doesn't mean it gets done.”
Reid said he had spoken with Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), an architect of a Senate version of the overhaul bill, and Rob Nabors, who was dispatched by President Obama to help clean up the problems at the VA, about finding a way to move the negotiations forward. read more>>>
They got the Gen. "Mission Accomplished" the GOP problems solved!!!
There is only one branch of the government that's been consistent, now for over five yrs., in helping us Veterans, long ignored or denied issues by those served, as well as Military personal and their Families, the Executive Branch and it's Cabinet, because those served through their representatives won't and wouldn't previously!! Trying finally to build what the Country promised, decades and wars from ignored their responsibility, and the conservative ideology is to privatize, bringing in all the problems and bottom line corporate executive mentality, for corporate profit off the peoples treasury. They don't control the Countries purse strings and the VA is the Responsibility of the Country Served, the Poser Patriots who use Veterans as political pawns!!
“We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.” —General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration
And Who Says Politics Doesn't Play From Within the Agencies to the Branches
Especially to the Legislative to keep the costs, or create costly 'scandals', way down in the VA.
Oh and they got Bonuses too!! While, once again and for decades, nothing was done by Congress to help the VA but the usual, underfunding or seeking cuts to the budgets and especially nothing by the conservative controlled congresses under the bushco, just as they, countries Poser Patriots and the Media, wanted while waging two long wars!!
Prior too this present Executive and Veterans administrations:
October 23, 2008 - And now VA investigators are trying to figure out if this one-time survey points to the likelihood that documents have been improperly destroyed for months or even years.
"Whatever this problem is, it didn't just start in the last two weeks," said Dave Autry, a spokesman for Disabled American Veterans. "It'd be unreasonable to assume that. Who knows what's been destroyed."
The documents, which didn't have duplicates at the VA, would have been critical in deciding veteran pension and disability claims. As a result, many veterans are asking whether their delayed or denied claims were affected by lost paperwork. read more>>>
Oct 16, 2008 - 'VA claims found in piles to be shredded'
October 24, 2008 - 'House panel will target VA shredding'
February 11, 2009 - 'Veterans' Claims Found in Shredder Bins'
ProPublica and The Seattle Times Nov. 9, 2012 - 'Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans'
"DeLara's case is part of a much larger problem that has plagued the U.S. military since the 1990 Gulf War: a failure to create and maintain the types of field records that have documented American conflicts since the Revolutionary War."
'Army Says War Records Gap Is Real, Launches Recovery Effort'
'The War On Military Records'
12/10/2013 - The era of big data has arrived on the battlefield and we need to find new ways to deal with it.
Nothing done, just plenty of photo ops and media attention while not reporting exactly why, especially from them extremely high priced, so called journalists, talking heads and writers who loves them huge tax cuts as wars and long occupations raged!!