My concern is that VA has or will clear this backlog by simply administratively closing appointments.
Well, yeah, I think you have via the internal documents here, and you are actually fairly specific.
You came in, obviously, the system was in chaos and not serving the veterans' community. You have been there, you haven'...
Chronic multisymptom illness is real and cannot be reliably ascribed to any known psychiatric disorder.
Gulf War Illness is not a psychologic condition.
It is a long-standing tradition of this committee to save the best for last. So I am very exalted to be in this position...
I remember it very well, having been there myself as a Marine Corps officer.
If there were Gulf War veterans in senior positions in the Veterans Administration, I don't think we would be here today...
I find the conduct of the Veterans Administration embarrassing on this issue in terms of their treatment of veterans.
I introduced a 'Know Before You Owe Act' which would require private lenders to certify borrowers are enrolled in school...
I am asking the same questions many fellow Gulf War veterans have; namely, how is this unique set of veterans being trea...
Why wasn't--why weren't the findings of this research published for peer review purposes?
Why did VA change the methodology of the congressionally mandated study?
How do we make sure that federal loans for online courses are treated the same as loans for traditional classes and don'...
Why does it appear that there has been a misappropriation of funds appropriated for the purpose of research for Gulf War...
I really would like to have some benchmarks, some timetables so that we can report to our veterans that we are moving fo...
In the wake of that incident, this committee had a hearing toward exactly how such an absurd and dangerous breach of sec...
We have to insist that standards are simply never relaxed because people don't like filling out paperwork.
