Walter B. Jones: “You cannot explain the waste, fraud, and abuse and that is what is wrong with your request, quite frankly.”

What would be wrong with putting the responsibility in the Office of the Secretary of Defense... and saying to the Secretary of Defense: You have the responsibility for accountability.

I never will forget Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of Defense, sitting where you are telling this committee that he will account for every dollar of the taxpayer.

This bill will reduce the administrative burdens on grieving family members, and ensure that they receive the benefits that they are entitled to as quickly and expeditiously as possible.

Unfortunately we have to lose my son in this manner. Had this bill been in place I think it would protect young men as they were jogging down the street.