Pat Fallon: “I thank the gentleman for yielding additional time. Mr. Speaker, the Veterans Affairs Administration has hundreds of…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding additional time. Mr. Speaker, the Veterans Affairs Administration has hundreds of thousands of backlogged claims. As for the Social Security Administration, The Washington Post states, ``More than 1 million disabled Americans, many of them poor and elderly, are waiting months or years to hear whether they will receive benefits. Processing times have doubled in some States and almost tripled in others.'' So long as the American people are not getting the services this government is mandated to provide, we are not operating a government for, by, and of the people.”