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Chairman Jeff Miller released the below statement today ahead of President Obama’s State of the Union address. “President Obama’s Department of Veterans Affairs is an agency where proven incompetence, corruption and whistleblower retaliation are routinely tolerated. This sad fact is contributing to all of the department’s most serious problems and distracting… Read more »

Today, Chairman Miller released the following statement regarding the fact that two Phoenix VA Health Care System leaders, who the department targeted for termination and put on paid leave for 19 months, will be returning to work: “The fact that the department took 19 months to reach the conclusion that employees collecting pay checks should be required to work is simply mind… Read more »

Today, Chairman Miller released the following statement regarding the VA secretary’s refusal to punish confirmed whistleblower retaliation at the heart of the VA scandal in Phoenix. “VA’s routine and pervasive refusal to seriously discipline employees who have engaged in proven incompetence, corruption and malfeasance is contributing to all of the department’s… Read more »

Today, Chairman Miller released the following statement regarding VA’s admission that it botched the disciplinary process for Diana Rubens and Kimberly Graves: “It seems VA’s incompetence knows no bounds. After VA Dep. Sec. Sloan Gibson repeatedly expressed concerns that our committee’s legitimate oversight efforts could jeopardize these disciplinary proceedings,… Read more »

Yesterday Chairman Miller wrote to VA Sec. Robert McDonald, urging him reconsider VA’s refusal to recoup more than $400,000 that two VA employees defrauded from the government. Today, Chairman Miller released the letter along with the following statement: “VA’s handling of this situation effectively gives corruption and fraud among department employees an official VA… Read more »

Today Chairman Miller released the below statement regarding the lack of serious accountability for VA employees Diana Rubens and Kimberly Graves. The VA inspector general made criminal referrals regarding Rubens and Graves after it found they had abused their authority, enabling them to rake in a total of more than $400,000 in taxpayer-funded relocation benefits. “For those… Read more »

Until VA leaders and Obama make a commitment to supporting real accountability at the department, efforts to reform the VA are doomed to fail. Read more »

On Thursday, November 19, 2015, at 12:00 P.M. in room 334 of the Cannon House Office Building, Chairman Jeff Miller will host a screening of the 30-minute film “Warriors Return” by Marcia Rock. “Warriors Return” tells the story of five Navajo Veterans who served our country during World War II, Vietnam and Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. They encountered… Read more »

Today the House passed two House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs-originated bills: H.R. 1338, the Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2015, would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to conduct a study and report back to Congress on the problem of unclaimed remains of deceased veterans and also place a $2 million cap on Fiscal Year 2016 bonuses for VA senior… Read more »

Chairman Jeff Miller today released the following statement in honor of Veterans Day: Read more »