Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a bill to help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits weeks after the measure initially sailed through the Senate with 84 votes, angering Democrats, veterans groups and comedian Jon Stewart, a leading proponent to aid the community.
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, was particularly incensed by the turn of events. Tester, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), other lawmakers and Stewart on Thursday morning joined veterans outside the Capitol — who originally came to Washington to see the bill pass — to assail the GOP.
“It just makes the gut punch that more devastating,” Stewart said, given the number of veterans who came to Washington hoping the bill would pass. “Their constituents are dying.”
“This is a disgrace,” he added.
The bill would significantly change how the Department of Veterans Affairs cares for veterans who […]
It is worth considering that the congress people voting against this toxin medical relief bill were also acting to prevent similar claims from a tremendous number of affected people on our home ground that are being driven into bad health by bad law/regulation of the chemical, refining and manufacturing sectors.
They seem to be totally blind to the fact that they’re tapping into and building a bloc that will rise up against them during elections.
There are a lot of Veterans, including myself who are speaking out against WAR, and the “WAR MACHINE”.
P.S.: I hate the way the VA hospitals treat some veterans. They would do nothing for me even though I had to sit before a civilian Federal Judge to prove I was Permanently Handicapped, and the VA I went to did not even look at the records provided by the many doctors I had seen which made the Judge come to that conclusion.
On the other hand, my eldest stepson went to an Oklahoma VA hospital and they put him on pure Morphine which he had to “shoot up” with a needle and which got him hooked and it eventually killed him and he died right on his brother’s couch, a few years ago. It was terrible.