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Senate Blocks VA Accountability Bill
Posted: May 24, 2014
It's going to a committee. Why? Do they really need to study this bill? It's very simple.
Why this bill should become law:
- The bill would give the VA Secretary greater authority to fire employees and remove them from SES service due to poor performance in the same manner a Member of Congress can remove a member of their staff.
- The bill would require the VA Secretary to give the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees notice of removal within 30 days of removing an individual.
http://veterans.house.gov/HR4031
Senate Democrats Just Blocked a Bill to Increase Accountability at the Scandal-Plagued Veterans Affairs Department
This actually happened on the Senate floor this afternoon. Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) asked for consent to take up and pass the Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act, a bill that would make it easier/possible for the scandal-plagued department to fire employees based on poor performance. The House overwhelmingly passed the legislation on Wednesday, with a bipartisan vote of 390 to 33. (Only Democrats objected.)
Surely the Senate would follow suit, right? Not exactly. Senator Bernie Sanders, a union-backed socialist from Vermont, objected on behalf of Senate Democrats to Rubio’s request. Instead of taking any action now, Sanders said he is going to hold a hearing—several weeks from now.
Sanders, who chairs the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, has been one of the most outspoken defenders of the VA against allegations of misconduct. When asked about reports of multiple deaths related to long wait times at the VA healthcare system, Sanders told CNN: “People die every day.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) on Thursday offered a lukewarm assessment of the House-passed legislation, describing it as “not unreasonable.”
And a longer article is here:
http://news.yahoo.com/senate-dems-block-bill-firing-232700668.html
Link for House-passed bill (H.R. 4031):
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Up until Sanders said this, I thought he was a - reasonable man.
[ In Reply To ..]âPeople die every day.â Yes, they do, Mr. Sanders, but they shouldn't have to die because of some inept VA system that was apparently on the president's radar since 2008.
Just what on earth would be his motivation for this madness? This is a completely nonpartisan issue, but it doesn't appear to be now.
Spoke like the commie he is - nothing reasonable about him - Dems just want any "undesirables" (their
[ In Reply To ..]to die off and make room for what they deem the political elite...can anyone say "Hitler". That ought to set the panties on fire of the Godwin Board Monitor.
Commie or junior Hitler's? - Hitler was a fascist
[ In Reply To ..]Communists and Hitler's fascist party are 2 VERY, VERY different ideologies. The most relevant current day comparison to Hitler is this country's far, far extreme conservative right wing.
A reasonable Communist? - Okaaaay.
[ In Reply To ..]nm
I know. My bad. Maybe I was hopeful. - Poster of stupidity.
[ In Reply To ..]I figured since he is independent, he would be reasonable. It is now apparent where his loyalties are. He's a typical democrat elitist.
Democrats party of "no"...No regard, for truth, no compassion, no common sense - No regard for Americans
[ In Reply To ..]No backbone. No cajones. Dumbocrats nothing but a bunch of boot stepping Commies wait for the next talking point.
And how do you feel about the SEVEN VA bills - that were blocked by Republicans?
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Here was the part I thought was the worst. - ZvilleMT
[ In Reply To ..]Sanders's objection was that no one had read the bill yet. Okay, I get that - they should read the bills before they vote on them (first time for everything), but the bill was only 3 (three) pages long. I think in the time it took them to write the NFL and demand that the Redskins change their team name, they all could have read three pages.
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