[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16506]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                 KEEPING OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR VETERANS

  (Mr. MEADOWS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEADOWS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today having come from a hearing in 
which we heard about some of the issues with Veterans Affairs, such as 
$762,000 spent on a conference while our veterans had to wait for their 
disability claims to be processed.
  In my home State of North Carolina, the delay is unacceptable, Mr. 
Speaker. We are having families that are having to wait almost 2 years 
to have their claims processed. This is unacceptable. If it were just 
an extravagant conference, we could overlook it, yet a senior official 
in an email says, ``Well, bottom line, you don't have to worry about a 
thing.''
  Mr. Speaker, it has come to the time where we can tell our veterans 
they don't have to worry about a single thing, where their claims are 
processed, and where we truly keep our commitment to our veterans.

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