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patients really needs to change. whoever takes on this position needs to look into the matter where it is run like a sorority. it is not like the military where you have to prove you re better than the next guy and rise up. and i think that was the world that shinseki knew, of duty, honor and country, and not me, me, me, and what can i do to further my career. mr. chairman, it is pretty scary to hear it was run like a sorority or fraternity. and he was there, he saw it happening. and thank goodness he felt comfortable enough to reach out and say there was a serious problem and somebody has to look into what is going on. if you can go back to augusta and columbia in south carolina, at this point there has been nobody accountable for those deaths that they have already
ralph, i know you ve been an advocate of general shinsekis, although he ll land h1on his fe and be fine. what does it mean for the president? megyn, it s not a sad moment for me, it s a sad moment for veterans. the american people have lost faith in congress. so by the chairman s logic, congress should go, too. president obama when it comes to vets, so often in so many spears, he says so many grace shows and right things but as with so many other spears, he does nothing to execute it. doesn t do anything to fix it. i m not going to pick on the president on this. congress and both parties in congress share more of the blame or a much of the blame if not more because congress is supposed to have the oversight of the va and collect it. congress funds va. congress has increased the scope of responsibilities of va
to search for a new v.a. chief. retired air force general shinseki resigned friday amid stunning revelations of bureaucratic lapses at his agency. before stepping down shinseki describes the problems as systemic. the question is, will installing a new chief at the top of a massive and apparently very troubled bureaucracy really change anything? let s talk now with in washington alex nicholson, legislative director for the organization iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. thanks for being with us. we just heard from a vet last hour. another veteran, who says veteran doss not abandon other veterans and there is some sort of a backlash to some degree for the firing. well, the resignation of shin sek pin
the thing speaks for itself. their results speak for themselves here. for the fact that this system doesn t work. but yeah, i didn t call for shinseki s resignation because his resignation isn t going to solve this problem. what s going to solve this problem is aggressive digging. whether we do that under the leadership of shinseki or someone else isn t going to make a material difference. what is going to make a material difference is policies we adopt going forward. what would you propose? one measure is senate bill 2013. there s a house version of it sponsored by representative jeff miller which passed overwhelmly in the house just in the last few days. the secretary of the veterans administration needs to have the authority to fire or demote anyone for performance related