As soon as I became aware of the problems at Tomah, I directed committee staff to open an investigation into the problems of the facility.
That is why I have introduced the Ensuring Veteran Safety Through Accountability Act.
The VA Office of Inspector General conduct made it clear that Congress must act.
Last year's Phoenix wait time scandal showed us that there is a severe lack of accountability for VA officials.
This common sense bill--S. 1082--simply expands the Secretary's authority to swiftly remove poor employees, regardless of their rank in the ...
We believe S. 1082 is critical to overhauling a dysfunctional and bureaucratic culture that has infected VA at all levels.
We believe this bill is badly needed--and critical to VA's recovery--because so much of what ills VA stems from a dysfunctional and bureaucr...
The bill is S. 1082, the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability Act of 2015, introduced by Senator Marco Rubio.
Thank you for holding this hearing today.
If we keep rewarding failure--if we keep just spending another $3 billion here and $3 billion there--we can only expect more failure.
This is a clear image of what rewarding mediocrity and failure looks like at the Departmental level--failure that cascades down from the lea...