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Norman D. Dicks: “The Poe amendment states none of the funds made available by this act may be used for a director of a national cemetery…”

On the recordMay 31, 2012
The Poe amendment states none of the funds made available by this act may be used for a director of a national cemetery who, after the date that is 180 days, whatever date, however he rephrased it. According to the VA, compliance with this provision would be extremely disruptive to the NCA operations by requiring 20 percent of VA national cemetery directors to lose their current jobs for no other reason than that they are not a veteran. That is unfair. The gentleman may have a grievance about one funeral director, but you can't take this out on the rest of these people who are doing a good job. So I would hope that we would defeat this ill-considered amendment. I yield back the balance of my time.
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May 31, 2012

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