The American Legion applauds the passage of H.R. 1259, "VA Accountability First Act of 2017", and thanks Chairman Roe for his leadership on this issue.
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Praising the passage of a bill aimed at improving VA accountability.
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It is embarrassing to me to go home and to look those folks in the eye who work as hard as they do and write the checks they do to see this big of a disaster, financial disaster.
As long as I am in the Congress I will never vote to see the VA do a major project again.
But I am mindful of something Rahm Emanuel said when he was chief of staff to President Obama in 2009. He said you never let a serious crisis go to waste. I am afraid some of us are doing that here.
I want to give the VA a shout-out and there are some--obviously, we are going over some problems today that the VA had, but all in all I think the VA probably has the opportunity to be one of the best systems in the country.





