BMG Post ™ 11/10/05 PM - Veterans Day Outrage: Conservatives End 55-Year-Old Practice of Hearings for Vet Groups

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Veterans Day Outrage:

Conservatives End 55-Year-Old Practice of Hearings for Vet Groups


On Tuesday — three days before Veterans Day [link to lnk.nu] — House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Steve Buyer (R-IN) announced that for the first time in at least 55 years, “veterans service organizations will no longer have the opportunity to present testimony before a joint hearing of the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees.”

Remember that Buyer was handpicked by criminally-indicted Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) to replace former veterans committee chairman Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), who had been extremely vocal [link to lnk.nu] about the consistent underfunding of veterans causes.

The Disabled American Veterans, the “official voice of America’s service-connected disabled veterans,” just issued a scathing release calling the move “an insult to all who have fought, sacrificed and died to defend the Constitution.” [link to lnk.nu] The timing, they said, “could not have been worse.”

Read the full release here. [link to lnk.nu] ( More from The Hill. [link to lnk.nu] )


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