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Veterans Fire Back at Letter by Senator
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Veterans Fire Back at Letter by Senator
By Jonathan Weisman
May 26, 2014
Washington Post
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/us/
veterans-groups-lash-out-at-republican-senator.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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WASHINGTON - An "open letter" from a senior Republican senator to the
nation's veterans in which he castigates the leadership of veterans'
organizations prompted a brutal war of words over the Memorial Day
weekend, including a promise from the Veterans of Foreign Wars that its
"hat in hand" approach to Congress will turn more combative.
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The controversy over delayed access to care at Department of Veterans
Affairs hospitals veered, over the weekend, away from allegations of
incompetence at the top of the agency toward a broader fight over
resources and the future of government health care for an expanding pool
of veterans.
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The issue carries risk for Republicans because they could be left with a
politically difficult effort to privatize at least some veterans' health
care or to pump more money into a system covering about 2.8 million
veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an option veterans groups
have demanded but Republican leaders have resisted.
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"What we need to establish now is how we can provide high-quality, timely
health care to all of our veterans, period," said Senator Bernard Sanders,
independent of Vermont and the chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs
Committee, who is preparing legislation for Senate consideration in the
coming weeks. "At a time when we have a major primary-care crisis, how do
we make sure the V.A. gets the staffing they need?"
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The open letter, from Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the
ranking Republican on the Veterans Affairs Committee - and the groups'
responses - pushed the conflict into the open.
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Mr. Burr, angry that only the American Legion has called for the
resignation of the veterans affairs secretary, Eric Shinseki, accused the
groups of being "more interested in defending the status quo within V.A.,
protecting their relationships within the agency, and securing their
access to the secretary and his inner circle" than in helping members.
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The Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veterans and the
Paralyzed Veterans of America hit back hard.
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"For years, the V.F.W. has come to Congress with hat in hand, and for
years we've heard the same old story," the heads of the veterans group
wrote to Mr. Burr. "You can be assured, Senator, that you've done a superb
job in showing us the error in our ways. You can also be assured that in
the future, we will spend a substantial percentage of our time seeking to
inform our members and our constituents of the repeated failure to act by
our elected officials."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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