On the recordJune 18, 2012
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
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congress.govThis is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
Filner expresses frustration over the need for 4,000 more employees to handle backlogged claims.
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If I had a person here waiting for six month, a year, or 30 years for a rating, what you are saying does not mean anything.
You have not either acknowledged a problem or say how we are going to get out of it.
Let's grant those claims. Forget the suffering. Forget all the presumptiveness. Forget all the studies.
It is time for VA to uphold its responsibility, to our veterans and to the American people, to break this cycle of un-productivity and deliver the benefits that the agency was created to provide.