[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9917]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        PROTECTING OUR VETERANS

  (Mr. McNERNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McNERNEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on my Republican 
colleagues to focus on the things that the American people sent us here 
to do. Today, I want to talk about protecting our veterans.
  We owe it to our veterans to do everything we can to restore their 
confidence in the VA health care system. The plan announced Monday by 
the VA is a step in the right direction, but we must do much more.
  I stand on behalf of the veterans in my district. They are still 
waiting too long and driving too far to see a doctor and waiting far 
too long for their claims and appeals to be processed. We need to see 
Congress spend its time getting to the bottom of the VA's dysfunction 
and giving the VA leadership the tools they need to fix these problems.
  This is something we should do right now, instead of spending time on 
yet another series of politically motivated hearings on Benghazi. I 
call on the Republican leadership to use our House resources to 
investigate the real causes of the delays and work to find real 
solutions that will serve our veterans. That is a plan the whole House 
could get behind.

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