Last month, after 100,000-plus veterans, military family members, and VoteVets supporters acted, the United States Senate passed Bernie Sanders’ Restoring Veterans’ Trust Act by a vote of 93-3.
The bill promises to increase the number of doctors and nurses at VA facilities while authorizing spending to lease twenty-seven additional clinics. These are important steps Congress should take right now in order to improve short and long-term care for our nation’s veterans.
So, why hasn’t it gotten to President Obama’s desk yet?
The short answer is that several Tea Partiers in the House and Mitch McConnell’s Senate Caucus are trying to gum up the works and stall until Congress goes on their five week recess this Friday.
Can you imagine? Veterans are dying, and some Members of Congress are counting down the clock to their extended vacation.
The good news is, a bipartisan deal between House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairmen was announced just yesterday.
Leave it to Congress to wait until the last minute, but it looks like this bill could get to President Obama by week’s end.
But in Washington, D.C. you never know, so let’s make sure they hear from us before skipping town.
http://action.votevets.org/va_reform
If no action is taken by Thursday morning, we’ll deliver signatures from every veteran, military family member and VoteVets supporter who has signed on in support of Senator Sanders’ bill.
This is important,
Jon Soltz
Iraq War Veteran and Chairman
VoteVets.org
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