Senator Patty Murray (above) is the Chair of the Senate Budget Committee and sits on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. Her office issued the following yesterday (we will include it in the snapshot -- I only saw it this afternoon):
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Murray Press Office
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 (202) 224-2834
VETERANS: Murray Statement on VA OIG Interim Report
WASHINGTON,
D.C --- Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member of the
Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, released the following statement
after the VA Office
of the Inspector General released their interim report after their
review of patient wait times, scheduling practices, and alleged patient
deaths at the Phoenix Health Care System.
“Today’s
interim report confirms what many of us have been saying for years: the
VA has deep-seated structural and cultural challenges, and our veterans
can’t afford
to wait any longer for these problems to be solved. The VA needs to
stop rewarding bad behavior and create a real system of accountability
and transparency. It needs to put an end to what appears to be a
pervasive culture of lying, cheating, and mismanagement.
And it needs to act right away—without waiting for more reports to come
out detailing even more system-wide failures. As I have told Secretary
Shinseki, we are at the point where good intentions are no longer good
enough—we need to see real actions to make
sure our veterans are getting the support and care they expect and
deserve, and we need to see that right away.”
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Meghan Roh
Press Secretary | New Media Director
Office of U.S. Senator Patty Murray
Mobile: (202) 365-1235
Office: (202) 224-2834
veterans
