The present Veterans Administration is the most pro-active one in my lifetime, lets keep it that way, as it always should have been! The Countries Responsibility is to Fully Fund!

“We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.” —General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration

"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

“Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013

WHY? GOOD QUESTION THOSE SERVED SHOULD ANSWER!

Prior too this present Executive and Veterans Administrations and just touching on the problems:

Army Times Oct. 16, 2008 - VA claims found in piles to be shredded

CNN iReport October 25, 2008 - House Vets' Committee To Probe VA Shredder Scandal

Tampa Bay Times Oct 27, 2008 - Hundreds of VA documents improperly shredded, review finds {Tampa Bay Times search page and series of articles}

CBS News February 11, 2009 - Veterans' Claims Found in Shredder Bins

And more disturbing in relation to even before and through the early years of the Afghanistan, quickly abandoned missions of, and Iraq occupations, this:

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."

Add in the issues of finally recognizing in War Theater and more Veterans, by this Veterans Administration and the Executive Administrations Cabinet, what the Country choose to ignore from our previous decades and wars of: The devastating effects on Test Vets and from PTS, Agent Orange, Homelessness, more recent the Desert Storm troops Gulf War Illnesses, Gulf War Exposures with the very recent affects from In-Theater Burn Pits and oh so so much more! Tens of Thousands of Veterans' that have been long ignored and maligned by previous VA's and the whole Country and through their representatives!


America's representative democracy, that "government of the people, by the people, for the people" - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
How does a Country HONOR It's Fallen, by Their Own 'Sacrifice' in Taking Care of the Brothers and Sisters They Served With!!

These present wars have yet to be paid for, rubber stamping and rapid deficits rising started before 9/11 and continued with same for the wars. But especially in the early some six years of extremely little was added to the Veterans Administration budgets by those Congresses, and since obstructed by same war rubber stampers, as to the long term results of War, DeJa-Vu all over again. Keeping the VA under budgeted causes problems and of many grow worse, which costs more to correct much more, which is the goal of those seeking to privatize Government Agencies as they attack the people of and which was created by their own incompetence and ideologies, but doing those served will!

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

"To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan" - President Lincoln




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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

House Committee on Veterans Affairs: 5 February 2013

Analyzing VA’s Actions to Prevent Legionnaire’s Disease in Pittsburgh
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (O&I) | 334 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC | Feb 5, 2013 10:00am
Witnesses

Panel 1

Dr. Robert Jesse, Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Accompanied by:
Mr. Mike Moreland, Network Director, VISN 4, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Dr. Gary Roselle, Chief, Medical Service Program Director, Infectious Diseases, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Panel 2

Dr. Victor L. Yu, Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Janet Stout, Director, Special Pathogens Laboratory
Mr. Aaron Marshall, Operations Manager, Enrich Products, Inc.
Mr. Steve Schira, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Liquitech, Inc.
Ms. Kathleen Dahl, President, AFGE Local 2028, Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Dr. Lauri Hicks, Medical Epidemiologist, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Submissions for the Record

Mr. Edward Dudek, M.P.P.M., Assistant Vice President Facilities, Engineering, and Maintenance, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside Hospital
Dr. Carlene Muto, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

The 100% Temporary Disability Rating: An Examination of Its Effective Use
Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs (DAMA) | 334 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC | Feb 5, 2013 2:00pm
Witnesses

Panel 1

Mr. Rick Weidman, Executive Director for Policy and Government Affairs, Vietnam Veterans of America
Ms. Linda Halliday, Assistant Inspector General for Audits and Evaluations Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Accompanied by:
Mr. Larry Reinkemeyer, Director, Kansas City Audit Operations Division Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Mr. Brent Arronte, Director, San Diego Benefits Inspection Division Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

anel 2

Ms. Diana Rubens, Deputy Under Secretary for Field Operations, Veterans Benefits Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Submissions for the Record

Mr. Carl Blake, National Legislative Director Paralyzed Veterans of America

If streamed online you will be able to find that at the Front Page of the Congressional House Committee and later archived with links found there also. Back links to opening statements in hearings above should be added either just before or after hearing.


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