Dole and Burr Voted Against Veterans' Health Care

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Dole and Burr Voted Against Veterans' Health Care
This week, as details about the deplorable conditions at hospitals responsible for helping our wounded soldiers continue to emerge, Republicans like Sens. Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr joined the chorus of outrage demanding to know how our government could have so severely failed them. But behind all the rhetoric is the harsh reality that, when they had a chance last year to provide funding for these facilities, Senators Dole and Burr chose to put party loyalty ahead of our brave men and women in uniform.

During the 109th Congress, Senators Dole and Burr voted FIVE times to block Democratic efforts to provide more resources to veterans and military health care. They voted against an additional $2.8 billion for veterans' medical care in FY2006, against pegging funding increases for the Veterans Administration to inflation and the demand for care, against establishing a $1 billion trust fund for improving health facilities, against closing corporate tax loopholes to fund an additional $1.5 billion for veterans' medical services in FY2007, and against a Democratic amendment that would have provided a mandatory five year funding stream of $104 billion for veterans' health care.

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[Vox_Reason]

1. Excellent LTTE in today's N&O

Regarding your March 2 editorial about the dreadful conditions and treatment of our troops at Walter Reed hospital:

I was intrigued by your comment that "senators visit" and sometimes a senator made "the red tape ... miraculously disappear" for the occasional soldier. I would like to know whether our senators, Elizabeth Dole (member of the Senate Armed Services Committee) and Richard Burr (member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee), have been visiting and making the red tape miraculously disappear for our North Carolina troops at Walter Reed and elsewhere in the VA system.

I would like to see in the N&O some facts about how many North Carolina troops have been wounded and sent to Walter Reed and the VA system and about how effective our two senators, who have long served on their committees, have been in helping them. I also urge yuou to continue to monitor and update this story, with particular emphasis on our troops.

We cannot let this story slide. Our troops deserve no less from us.

Nell Steelman Whitlock
Raleigh

[jarnocan]

2. WOW! thanks for posting Going to the Pentagon ? if not...

Fayetteville or...


http://cpcnc.blogspot.com for more info...

BTW Dole's office treated the lobbyist for peace (1/29) even military fams and vets like beggars, no meeting, no hospitality -zilch