Urges the President to immediately request the resignation of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Eric Shinseki.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 98 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. CON. RES. 98
Urging the President to immediately request the resignation of
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 15, 2014
Mr. Farenthold submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was
referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Urging the President to immediately request the resignation of
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki.
Whereas Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki is assigned to provide the
Nation's veterans the quality of care and benefits they deserve and have
earned;
Whereas Secretary Shinseki's poor oversight and failed leadership has led to the
tragic and avoidable deaths of some of the Nation's veterans;
Whereas officials of the Department of Veterans Affairs revealed inexcusable
delays in providing emergency health care to the Nation's veterans;
Whereas Secretary Shinseki has shown ineffectiveness and a lack of transparency
as the top official at the Department of Veterans Affairs;
Whereas the clerks at the Department of Veterans Affairs were instructed how to
falsify appointment records to meet agency goals;
Whereas Secretary Shinseki has displayed an unwillingness or inability to change
the culture of falsifying documents at the Department of Veterans
Affairs;
Whereas Secretary Shinseki has failed to implement modern age technology to
reduce backlogs in veterans' claims;
Whereas reports indicate that the Department of Veterans Affairs has paid out
more than $200,000,000 in wrongful-death claims to the families of
nearly 1,000 veterans since September 11, 2001; and
Whereas veterans have earned the right to have timely access to quality
healthcare: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),
That Congress urges the President, in light of these aforementioned
failures, to immediately request the resignation of Veterans Affairs
Secretary Eric Shinseki.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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