SR Republicans KNEW About Walter Reed Problems-But Shut Up To Avoid Embarrasing Army/Admin.

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CQ TODAY
March 7, 2007 – 9:00 p.m.
Members Were Aware of Lapses at Walter Reed
By Seth Stern, CQ Staff

Senior Republicans who knew about problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center while their party controlled Congress insist they did all they could to prod the Pentagon to fix them.

But C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., former chairman of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, said he stopped short of going public with the hospital’s problems to avoid embarrassing the Army while it was fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Young and Thomas M. Davis III, R-Va., the former chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, both acknowledged in interviews that they were aware of patient care problems at Walter Reed long before The Washington Post exposed them two weeks ago.

At a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Young detailed his efforts to assist patients at Walter Reed during visits he or his wife made to the hospital as early as 2003. He described repeatedly confronting the hospital’s then commander, Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, about patients who, they discovered, had received poor care.

more at:
http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002465100.html

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1. Every time. The GOP does the same thing. The Republican Party is unable to provide

oversight over themselves. In fact, there isn't much of anything about their leadership or their positions that isn't corrupt.