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The Senate voted 50-11 Monday to confirm the former Maryland governor, officially ending a multi-year period where the agency struggled under acting lea...

Fronts at the va and bigger investment in the va than just about any other va secretary. cut veteran homelessness by 24%. brought in folks exposed to agent orange waiting for decades to get the services and benefits they earned. making sure post-traumatic dress disorder and traumatic brain injury was dealt with and facilities for our women vets who werent receiving the kind of specialized services that they needed. hes been a championship of our veterans and where theres problems hes been ready ...

Investment in the va than just about any other va secretary. he cut veterans homelessness by 24%. brought in folks who had been exposed to agent orange who had been waiting for decades to get the services an benefits that they had earned. making sure that posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury was dealt with in a serious way. making sure we had facilities for our womens vets who all too often were not receiving the kind of specialized services that they needed. so he has been a...

But i bet youre hearing that in 49 other states as well. >> absolutely. hundreds of thousands of folks are in school using the gi bill. they got checks for october but they dont know what will happen in a couple of weeks. they just shouldnt have to deal with that uncertainty. the backlog at the v.a. of disability claims is terrible . hundreds of thousandses of folks waiting. they started to chip away and dropped that by 30%. that will stop. they told us the numbers will go back up this week. the...

And gals and vietnam veterans and others dealing with difficulties on the balth field. >> i hear reports that some veterans come back from afghanistan or from iraq and they are made to wait a hundred and some throw 50 days before they can get the treatment they need. this seems to me to be inexcusable. why is it taking so long and what will it take to get the country off its did you have and mote the needs of the veterans who should get the first fruits and not the left overs. >> vets are told t...

And gals and vietnam veterans and others dealing with difficulties on the balth field. >> i hear reports that some veterans come back from afghanistan or from iraq and they are made to wait a hundred and some throw 50 days before they can get the treatment they need. this seems to me to be inexcusable. why is it taking so long and what will it take to get the country off its did you have and mote the needs of the veterans who should get the first fruits and not the left overs. >> vets are told t...

And gals and vietnam veterans and others dealing with difficulties on the balth field. >> i hear reports that some veterans come back from afghanistan or from iraq and they are made to wait a hundred and some throw 50 days before they can get the treatment they need. this seems to me to be inexcusable. why is it taking so long and what will it take to get the country off its did you have and mote the needs of the veterans who should get the first fruits and not the left overs. >> vets are told t...

But it was t too late and so we have this disability backlog. you might be waiting, 400, 500, 6 h hundred days for your claim and you have no clarity when it will be processed. we are calling on the president to step up and articulate a clear pan so that i know if im waiting for my plan there is light at the end of the tunnel. >> shannon: and there has been bipartisan support, letters to the president asking h them to do the same. i want to ask you about go silent taking place tomorrow on memori...

And gals and vietnam veterans and others dealing with difficulties on the balth field. >> i hear reports that some veterans come back from afghanistan or from iraq and they are made to wait a hundred and some throw 50 days before they can get the treatment they need. this seems to me to be inexcusable. why is it taking so long and what will it take to get the country off its did you have and mote the needs of the veterans who should get the first fruits and not the left overs. >> vets are told t...

And gals and vietnam veterans and others dealing with difficulties on the balth field. >> i hear reports that some veterans come back from afghanistan or from iraq and they are made to wait a hundred and some throw 50 days before they can get the treatment they need. this seems to me to be inexcusable. why is it taking so long and what will it take to get the country off its did you have and mote the needs of the veterans who should get the first fruits and not the left overs. >> vets are told t...