Secretary of Veterans Affairs says
shutdown could lead to veterans not being paid
By: Geoff Bennett
10/09/2013 05:54 PM http://rochester.ynn.com/content/politics/699910/secretary-of-veterans-affairs-says-shutdown-could-lead-to-veterans-not-being-paid
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki
reminded the House committee members that actions have consequences and that
the consequences of the government shutdown are hitting veterans hard.
"Today, we’re in the 13th
year of the war in Afghanistan, providing care and benefits to
veterans of that war and the war in Iraq, as well. Members of this
latest generation of veterans are enrolling in VA at a higher rate than ever
before," said General Eric Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
That high enrollment contributed
to a backlog of veterans’ disability and pension claims, something the VA has
been working to fix. But Shinseki said that the worker furloughs connected to
the shutdown have stalled their progress.
Eric Shinseki
Eric
K. Shinseki is the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs for the Barack
Obama administration, a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations (think tank), and was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Note: George Soros is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations
(think tank), and the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
Togo
D. West Jr. is a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations (think tank), a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), was the secretary
for the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs, and the general counsel for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Chuck
Hagel is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations (think tank), the chair for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), the secretary for
the U.S. Department of Defense, and was
the deputy administrator for the U.S.
Veterans Administration.
Marc
Grossman is a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations (think tank), was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and a special
representative for Afghanistan.
Richard C. Holbrooke was a director at
the Council on Foreign Relations (think
tank), a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), a special envoy
to Afghanistan,
Pakistan
for the Barack Obama administration,
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Zalmay Khalilzad
is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations (think tank), a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and was a U.S.
ambassador for Afghanistan.
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