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Breaking: Senate Democrats just blocked a very important bill about the VA scandal
Young Conservatives ^ | 05-22-2014 | Joshua Riddle

Posted on 05/22/2014 5:04:27 PM PDT by Kevin in California

Just when you think Democrats can’t possibly sink any lower, they go and do something like this.

Marco Rubio wants to pass the Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act. This bill aims to make it easier/possible for the scandal-plagued department to fire employees based on poor performance (like any other real job). The House overwhelmingly passed it with a bipartisan vote of 390 to 33. (Only Democrats objected.)


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: congress; democrats; military; scandal; va; veterans
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To: cableguymn

So we have a fix to repair the VA and the Democrats block it. Incredible. What on earth is going on in Washington DC? have they all gone mad?


21 posted on 05/22/2014 5:34:49 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: cableguymn

“They have no intention of fixing ANY problem.”

They probably don’t want to allow it to be easier to fire people in the bureaucracy. That must be protected at all costs.


22 posted on 05/22/2014 5:34:57 PM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: cotton1706

LIBs/DIMs are subhuman scum who have no intention of ever not hating you and your family. They will only be satisfied when their infiltrating moozlum friends chop off your heads. Fascist losers.


23 posted on 05/22/2014 5:44:18 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: House Atreides

In the history of Federal Employment, has a Federal Employee ever been fired for not doing their job?

No, and the Federal Employees’ Union will never let them set a precedent with the VA.


24 posted on 05/22/2014 5:45:14 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Cold Heat
A guy in vista, CA is opening a barbecue in an abandon gas station .

His wife told him when he told her about it she said “when pigs fly”.

He's naming the place When Pigs Fly!

25 posted on 05/22/2014 5:47:02 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Kevin in California

You can’t fix a Marxist model.

Pray America wakes up


26 posted on 05/22/2014 5:48:34 PM PDT by bray (Palin 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm confused. The act has been referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. That's the last action on S. 2013:

S.2013 - Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014

I don't see anything to show that this has been deferred or declined.

27 posted on 05/22/2014 5:56:52 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Kevin in California

At least the Senate Dems know where their priorities are: They sign a letter demanding the Redskins football team change its name. They ignore the soldiers who fought “Bush’s War.”

Too bad, they don’t know what is really a priority. But then Dems don’t like the military.


28 posted on 05/22/2014 5:57:57 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: rarestia

Ah, I see. Bernie Sanders is the veterans’ affairs chairman, and he’s just going to let it languish. That’s the kerfuffle here. Pretty slimy.


29 posted on 05/22/2014 5:58:13 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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30 posted on 05/22/2014 6:02:44 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: cableguymn
They have no intention of fixing ANY problem."

Senate demonrats are inbred traitors and vile oxygen thieves. They fix nothing that is worthwhile; they only seek to destroy and desecrate what is good.

31 posted on 05/22/2014 6:10:04 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Kevin in California

I just saw video of Bernie Sanders saying they couldn’t vote for something without reading it.

ITS 3 STINKIN PAGES!


32 posted on 05/22/2014 6:13:35 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: cripplecreek

Democrats cant read?


33 posted on 05/22/2014 6:14:40 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: GeronL

Apparently not. It only takes me a few minutes to read 3 pages.


34 posted on 05/22/2014 6:15:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Kevin in California; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; ...

VA ping.


35 posted on 05/22/2014 6:31:20 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: Hojczyk
And unless something changes the fact that females are permitted to vote, THEY'LL STICK US WITH HILLARY for 8 YEARS just as they STUCK US WITH OBAMA for 8 years.

The biggest threat to America is the female voter, and yeah.. This needs to be talked about because something must be done to STOP THEIR GULLIBILITY WHEN IT COMES TO VOTING, LIKE BEING LED DOWN THE PRIMROSE PATH BY OBAMA, PELOSI, SANDRA FLUKE, BLAH BLAH BLAH ETC ETC..!!!!!

36 posted on 05/22/2014 6:52:47 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Kevin in California

Bernie Sanders says he didn’t have time to read a 3 page bill. I sure wish they had felt that way about Obamacare.


37 posted on 05/22/2014 6:55:27 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
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To: cableguymn

Jon Stewart’s on dems’ case with the VA thing... they’re going to have to do something... Stewart can get the word out to democrats who never hear a critical word about democrats from their usual ‘news’ sources.


38 posted on 05/22/2014 6:59:52 PM PDT by GOPJ (If dems will "death panel" our vets they'll damn sure death panel the rest of us...)
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To: cripplecreek

Was it in cursive?


39 posted on 05/22/2014 7:38:08 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: deport; All

What is Senator Sanders covering up, and who else is in on the VA Hospital Coverup?


40 posted on 05/22/2014 7:44:38 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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