Veterans Denied Benefits Under Bush May Get Them Under Shinseki
The Associated Press reported yesterday that Gen. Shinseki has said he will reopen benefits to hundreds of thousands of middle-income veterans denied during the Bush administration.
In a 54-page disclosure obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head the government’s second largest agency also urged Congress to set VA funding a year in advance to minimize political pressures. And the former Army chief of staff said he will step down from the corporate boards of defense contractors to alleviate potential conflicts of interest.
“If confirmed, I would focus on these issues and the development of a credible and adequate 2010 budget request during my first 90 days in office,” Shinseki wrote to the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, noting that VA funding in the past created “significant management difficulties” that delayed medical care.
The Senate committee is scheduled to hold Shinseki’s confirmation hearing on Jan. 14.
2 Comments
MSG Paddy on June 6th, 2009
The VA keeps denying c/p claims in the face of solid evidence. Until you dismantle the good ole boy network of RO managers and their ilk, nothing will change! Paddy Callahan MSG USAR (ret)
Littlejuniata33@verizon.net on March 10th, 2009
Hope you work on the legal scam to protect “non employee”surgeons who wound Patients and try to escape liabilty.thanks for listening