Rachel Maddow shreds House GOP’s ‘shameless lip service’ on bill helping veterans

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Rachel Maddow tore into House Republicans on Wednesday for stalling on a bipartisan bill designed to help address veterans’ issues more than a month after it passed the Senate.

“Right now, while this crisis is still happening, all of Washington’s flagrant and shameless lip service on veterans’ issues is not being matched at all with action,” she said.

Last month, she explained, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) put together a bill calling for the construction of 26 new Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clinics in 18 states, as well as the hiring of additional VA medical personnel.

The bill also allowed veterans currently living more than 40 miles away from a VA facility to see a private medical professional. At the time, Sanders referred to it as a step toward mitigating some of the damage uncovered by multiple reports of VA malfeasance regarding handling of patients’ wait times. The bill passed in the Senate in a 93-3 vote.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/09/rachel-maddow-shreds-house-gops-shameless-lip-service-on-bill-helping-veterans/

[Dustlawyer]

1. This should be re-aired repeatedly.

I will go to MSNBC's site to see if I can post it to my to my FB for my RW military buddy. Here it doesn't ever give me room to write or hit "post."

September 13 - November 4 Election Day hit the streets to get this freakin $ out of politics. If this doesn't show how broken our political system is, I don't know what else will.

Bill Moyers in his interview with Jim Hightower, former Texas Democratic politician (yes we had a bunch of those at one time); Papantonio, Seder and many others have been advocating for us to hit the streets and fight (peaceably) and I wholeheartedly agree! What better time to demand Publicly Funded Federal, State, and Local Elections than when they are swimming in their campaign cash!
Spread the word to other Democratic, and yes, even Republican groups (tell the to stop George Soros, Unions, and Trial Lawyers (me) from buying elections). Organize in your city/town and hit the streets! That's where you will find me and my family, including my 77 year old mom!