One of the few voices, with much more common sense and critical thought, left in congress and he backs up that voice for veterans with real action even while getting little backing, especially us veterans, from across the isle who now once again control the house side!!
January 3, 2012 - With local congressman Bob Filner resigning his seat in order to seek office as San Diego’s next mayor, political pundits and veterans groups have begun pondering who will get the nod to replace him as the ranking Democrat on the Veterans' Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives.
“When it’s all said and done, who’s going to be the one who’s going to literally follow through on the niceties that are said on Memorial Day and Veterans Day?” asked Tim Tetz, the legislative director of the American Legion, in Roll Call. The group, as well as other lobbying interests for veterans, largely credit Filner’s aggressive defense of veterans for helping secure the significant funding increases to the VA over the past several years — VA spending rose from $61.8 billion in fiscal 2004 to $109.6 billion in fiscal 2010.
“Right now we’re defending the advancements that we made the last two, three, five sessions of Congress,” added Tetz.
Committee chairman Jeff Miller, a Florida Republican, has privately drawn ire for his extension of the conservative belief in smaller government to include lower spending for veterans. Publicly, however, veterans’ lobbyists are loathe to speak negatively about the man who leads the committee in charge of defining federal policy affecting their groups’ members. read more>>>
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