Thread: Do Nothing Senate Holding Up Veterans Bills House Passed – DOA on Harry Reieds desk

[Listen] “Do Nothing Senate” Holding Up Veterans Bills House Passed – DOA on Harry Reid’s Desk

Posted on 24 May, 2014 by Rick Wells


Rep Jackie Walorski (R-IN) and her House colleagues have grown weary of Obama’s premise for unilateral action of the “do-nothing Congress.” She describes how inaccurate that term is in relation to what the House has been doing, particularly on the issue of veterans’ care.
She exposes the “do-nothing Senate,” led by Democrat Harry Reid as the legislative graveyard where all of their work goes to die.
The House has passed a dozen reform bills over the last 18 months or so and all of them have sat untouched in the Senate under Harry Reid’s “leadership.”
Maybe his job is to sit on everything he can in order to give Obama a premise upon which to take dictatorial action. If so, that is criminal. If not, his failure to act is at least immoral and reprehensible.
Walorski, a member of the House Veteran’s Affairs Committee expressed her views in a Wednesday interview on WMAL radio in Washington, DC.
She expresses hope that now, with the national attention focused on the issue of veterans and their care, Harry Reid will be forced to do his job and bring the legislation up for consideration and get things moving once again.



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GOP Rep.: House Passed A Dozen VA Reform Bills That Are DOA In Senate

Posted on 24 May, 2014 by clyde



While the president pounds his fist and proclaims he’s “madder than hell” over the Veterans Affairs scandal and then just asks for more time to review and investigate, House Republicans are getting pretty tired of the do-nothing Senate and a president who claims to only learn about problems in his administration on cable news.
Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., sits on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee in the House and she told [Larry O'Connor] Wednesday on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., that the House has passed a dozen bills for reform of the VA and they are collecting dust on [Sen.] Harry Reid’s desk:
O’CONNOR: Are your colleagues in the House doing something about this decades-old problem so we can get something done for the vets?
REP WALORSKI: In the past 18 months, since I’ve been a member of Congress, we’ve passed, on the House floor, at least 12 reform VA bills. Mandating the VA to fix different things, mandating the VA to report different things, mandating them to fix their website, bipartisan bills that went to the Senate, and they are DOA on the Senate side
The Indiana freshman went on to say, “We can pass bills all day long here on the House side, but if the Senate doesn’t get in gear and be held responsible and be held accountable for these veterans, it’s not going to work. … These things have been dead on arrival. Harry Reid has not moved one of these bills.”
So when you hear the president and the Democrats in Congress lament the “do nothing Congress” and proclaim their “year of action” in which President Obama will “act if Congress fails to act,” take note that Harry Reid has not brought any of the House VA reform bills to the Senate floor for consideration while veterans are dying as they wait for care.



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