Republicans Have Long History of NOT Supporting Veterans

[uscitizen]

NO one else remembers the task force headed up by Dole and albright that ripped VA medical care for returning vets a new one?

 

[freedombecki]

NO one else remembers how Bush's budget had VA cuts in it?
Until it was found out and he had to back off.

State the year of this assertion, please.

 

[freedombecki]

NO one else remembers the task force headed up by Dole and albright that ripped VA medical care for returning vets a new one?

Won't you state the year you are referring to, please.

 

[Stephanie]

Less than months after he was sworn in.

yeah, those few hours he was there I forgot.

Bush spent about two hours on his first visit.

He only visited the troops in Iraq one more time after that in his eight years.

So whatever stupid point you were trying to make failed.

 

[Harry Dresden]

The RINO dominated repub party wears the American Flag on their sleeves then like GW surrounded himself in USA flags when addressing the public all the while not supporting vets and sending active duty into a war without proper equipment.

Families had to buy their members bullet proof vests because the military was not prepared for a Bush rush to war. And their vehicles were not designed for substantial land mines.

McCain is a wealthy republican correct and receiving vets benefits yet voted against the troops and vets many times. That does suck big time!

I say give the vets their full benefits absolutely! Never question!

McCain did not vote against the Veterans.....he voted against the Bills presented for the veterans because there was a lot of non-Veteran bullshit in them.....a Bill for the Vets should be A BILL FOR THE VETS.....every fucking penny of it.....

McCain is full of crap. This information has been analyzed by more than one source.

McCain loves spending pork barrel in spite of what he says. The man has never turned down one dime.

i think there is a little stink coming from your way too....tell me Merr....when those people analyzed these Bills....where they 100% for Veterans or not?.....or was there other little odds and ends thrown in there?.....

 

[merrill]

McCain did not vote against the Veterans.....he voted against the Bills presented for the veterans because there was a lot of non-Veteran bullshit in them.....a Bill for the Vets should be A BILL FOR THE VETS.....every fucking penny of it.....

McCain is full of crap. This information has been analyzed by more than one source.

McCain loves spending pork barrel in spite of what he says. The man has never turned down one dime.

No he hasn't, he has not spent one dime on AZ with pork barrel spending.
I know because I am from AZ.
He also works to get the stupid pork barrel out in many of the bills.

As PolitiFact writer John Frank pointed out earlier this year, McCain has rarely sought pork, but he has on a few occasions, such as his 2006 legislation that asked for $10-million for an academic center at the University of Arizona to honor the late Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Or McCain's 2003 effort to use federal funds to buy property to create a buffer zone around Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, or his 1992 request that the Environmental Protection Agency provide $5-million toward a wastewater project in Nogales, Ariz.

While McCain advocates have argued in the past that these projects don't meet the definition of pork-barrel spending, pork critics disagree.

"If it doesn't meet the technical term of earmark, it would probably meet the public idea of one," Pete Sepp, a vice president at the conservative, anti-pork National Taxpayers Union, told the New York Times in reference to the Rehnquist center request.

 

[Stephanie]

McCain is full of crap. This information has been analyzed by more than one source.

McCain loves spending pork barrel in spite of what he says. The man has never turned down one dime.

No he hasn't, he has not spent one dime on AZ with pork barrel spending.
I know because I am from AZ.
He also works to get the stupid pork barrel out in many of the bills.

As PolitiFact writer John Frank pointed out earlier this year, McCain has rarely sought pork, but he has on a few occasions, such as his 2006 legislation that asked for $10-million for an academic center at the University of Arizona to honor the late Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Or McCain's 2003 effort to use federal funds to buy property to create a buffer zone around Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, or his 1992 request that the Environmental Protection Agency provide $5-million toward a wastewater project in Nogales, Ariz.

While McCain advocates have argued in the past that these projects don't meet the definition of pork-barrel spending, pork critics disagree.

"If it doesn't meet the technical term of earmark, it would probably meet the public idea of one," Pete Sepp, a vice president at the conservative, anti-pork National Taxpayers Union, told the New York Times in reference to the Rehnquist center request.

well then don't vote for McCain. easy as that.

 

[merrill]

Voting Against Veterans

# Veterans Groups Give McCain Failing Grades. In its most recent legislative ratings, the non-partisan Disabled American Veterans gave Sen. McCain a 20 percent rating for his voting record on veterans' issues. Similarly, the non-partisan Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America gave McCain a "D" grade for his poor voting record on veterans' issues, including McCain's votes against additional body armor for troops in combat and additional funding for PTSD and TBI screening and treatment.

# McCain Voted Against Increased Funding for Veterans' Health Care. Although McCain told voters at a campaign rally that improving veterans' health care was his top domestic priority, he voted against increasing funding for veterans' health care in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. (Greenville News, 12/12/2007; S.Amdt. 2745 to S.C.R. 95, Vote 40, 3/10/04; Senate S.C.R. 18, Vote 55, 3/16/05; S.Amdt. 3007 to S.C.R. 83, Vote 41, 3/14/06; H.R. 1591, Vote 126, 3/29/07)

# McCain Voted At Least 28 Times Against Veterans' Benefits, Including Healthcare. Since arriving in the U.S. Senate in 1987, McCain has voted at least 28 times against ensuring important benefits for America's veterans, including providing adequate healthcare. (2006 Senate Vote #7, 41, 63, 67, 98, 222; 2005 Senate Votes #55, 89, 90, 251, 343; 2004 Senate Votes #40, 48, 145; 2003 Senate Votes #74, 81, 83; 1999 Senate Vote #328; 1998 Senate Vote #175; 1997 Senate Vote #168; 1996 Senate Votes #115, 275; 1995 Senate Votes #76, 226, 466; 1994 Senate Vote #306; 1992 Senate Vote #194; 1991 Senate Vote #259)

http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1973

 

[freedombecki]

NO one else remembers the task force headed up by Dole and albright that ripped VA medical care for returning vets a new one?

Are you referring to this incident, uscitizen:

President Bush, responding to a growing outcry from the public and Congress, said today that medical treatment for some wounded soldiers is "unacceptable" and appointed former Sen. Bob Dole and former Clinton cabinet member Donna Shalala to head an independent inquiry into military health care. The announcement came as the Senate opened its own investigation Tuesday into reports of soldiers facing poor medical conditions at some facilities and excessive red tape. USA TODAY, "Bush Calls Walter Reed Conditions Unacceptable." March 7, 2007

 

[merrill]

# McCain Voted Against Providing Automatic Cost-of-Living Adjustments to Veterans. McCain voted against providing automatic annual cost-of-living adjustments for certain veterans' benefits. (S. 869, Vote 259, 11/20/91)

# McCain Voted to Underfund Department of Veterans Affairs. McCain voted for an appropriations bill that underfunded the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development by $8.9 billion. (H.R. 2099, Vote 470, 9/27/95)

# McCain Voted Against a $13 Billion Increase in Funding for Veterans Programs. McCain voted against an amendment to increase spending on veterans programs by $13 billion. (S.C.R. 57, Vote 115, 5/16/96)

# McCain Voted Against $44.3 Billion for Veterans Programs. McCain was one of five senators to vote against a bill providing $44.3 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs, plus funding for other federal agencies. (H.R. 2684, Vote 328, 10/15/99)

# McCain Voted Against $47 Billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs. McCain was one of eight senators to vote against a bill that provided $47 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs. (H.R. 4635, Vote 272, 10/12/00)

# McCain Voted Against $51 Billion in Veterans Funding. McCain was one of five senators to vote against the bill and seven to vote against the conference report that provided $51.1 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as funding for the federal housing, environmental and emergency management agencies and NASA. (H.R. 2620, Vote 334, 11/8/01; Vote 269, 8/2/01)

# McCain Voted Against $122.7 Billion for Department of Veterans Affairs. McCain voted against an appropriations bill that included $122.7 billion in fiscal 2004 for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development and other related agencies. (H.R. 2861, Vote 449, 11/12/03)

http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1973

 

[Stephanie]

Voting Against Veterans

# Veterans Groups Give McCain Failing Grades. In its most recent legislative ratings, the non-partisan Disabled American Veterans gave Sen. McCain a 20 percent rating for his voting record on veterans' issues. Similarly, the non-partisan Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America gave McCain a "D" grade for his poor voting record on veterans' issues, including McCain's votes against additional body armor for troops in combat and additional funding for PTSD and TBI screening and treatment.

# McCain Voted Against Increased Funding for Veterans' Health Care. Although McCain told voters at a campaign rally that improving veterans' health care was his top domestic priority, he voted against increasing funding for veterans' health care in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. (Greenville News, 12/12/2007; S.Amdt. 2745 to S.C.R. 95, Vote 40, 3/10/04; Senate S.C.R. 18, Vote 55, 3/16/05; S.Amdt. 3007 to S.C.R. 83, Vote 41, 3/14/06; H.R. 1591, Vote 126, 3/29/07)

# McCain Voted At Least 28 Times Against Veterans' Benefits, Including Healthcare. Since arriving in the U.S. Senate in 1987, McCain has voted at least 28 times against ensuring important benefits for America's veterans, including providing adequate healthcare. (2006 Senate Vote #7, 41, 63, 67, 98, 222; 2005 Senate Votes #55, 89, 90, 251, 343; 2004 Senate Votes #40, 48, 145; 2003 Senate Votes #74, 81, 83; 1999 Senate Vote #328; 1998 Senate Vote #175; 1997 Senate Vote #168; 1996 Senate Votes #115, 275; 1995 Senate Votes #76, 226, 466; 1994 Senate Vote #306; 1992 Senate Vote #194; 1991 Senate Vote #259)

VetVoice:: McCain's Miserable Record of Not Supporting America's Troops and Veterans

well then don't vote for McCain. easy nuff.

 

[merrill]

# McCain Opposed $500 Million for Counseling Services for Veterans with Mental Disorders. McCain voted against an amendment to appropriate $500 million annually from 2006-2010 for counseling, mental health and rehabilitation services for veterans diagnosed with mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder or substance abuse. (S. 2020, S.Amdt. 2634, Vote 343, 11/17/05)

# McCain opposed an Assured Funding Stream for Veterans' Health Care. McCain opposed providing an assured funding stream for veterans' health care, taking into account annual changes in veterans' population and inflation. (S.Amdt. 3141 to S.C.R. 83, Vote 63, 3/16/06)

# McCain Voted Against Adding More Than $400 Million for Veterans' Care. McCain was one of 13 Republicans to vote against providing an additional $430 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs for outpatient care and treatment for veterans. (S.Amdt. 3642 to H.R. 4939, Vote 98, 4/26/06)

# McCain Supported Outsourcing VA Jobs. McCain opposed an amendment that would have prevented the Department of Veterans Affairs from outsourcing jobs, many held by blue-collar veterans, without first giving the workers a chance to compete. (S.Amdt. 2673 to H.R. 2642, Vote 315, 9/6/07)

# McCain Opposed the 21st Century GI Bill Because It Was Too Generous. McCain did not vote on the GI Bill that will provide better educational opportunities to veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, paying full tuition at in-state schools and living expenses for those who have served at least three years since the 9/11 attacks. McCain said he opposes the bill because he thinks the generous benefits would "encourage more people to leave the military." (S.Amdt. 4803 to H.R. 2642, Vote 137, 5/22/08; Chattanooga Times Free Press, 6/2/08; Boston Globe, 5/23/08; ABCNews.com, 5/26/08)

# Disabled American Veterans Legislative Director Said That McCain's Proposal Would Increase Costs For Veterans Because His Plan Relies On Private Hospitals Which Are More Expensive and Which Could Also Lead To Further Rationing Of Care. "To help veterans who live far from VA hospitals or need specialized care the VA can't provide, McCain proposed giving low-income veterans and those who incurred injury during their service a card they could use at private hospitals.

The proposal is not an attempt to privatize the VA, as critics have alleged, but rather, an effort to improve care and access to it, he said. Joe Violanti, legislative director of the Disabled American Veterans, a nonpartisan organization, said the proposal would increase costs because private hospitals are more expensive. The increased cost could lead to further rationing of care, he said." (Las Vegas Sun, 8/10/08)


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[merrill]

Reader Views: Republicans Should Support Veterans
Posted on August 20, 2011 by Examiner Media

As a veteran, and one who uses the services of the VA hospital in Montrose, I read with interest last week’s article about Congresswoman Nan Hayworth’s fight to “save Montrose and save Castle Point.” I wish Ms Hayworth success, but I fear her battle is going to be mainly with her own party.

There is a common misconception about Republicans, who are known for large defense spending and getting us into wars easily, but they have a woeful history for supporting veterans.

These are the facts: under the guidance of House Republican Leader John Boehner, Republicans voted against providing special $500 payments for every month that 185,000 service members and veterans were forced to serve under stop-loss orders since Sept. 11, 2001.

Republicans voted against extending the New GI Bill college benefits to all children of service members who have died on active duty since 9-11-01.

Republicans voted against providing businesses with a $2,400 tax break for the hiring of an unemployed veteran, a $250 one-time payment to nearly two million disabled veterans receiving benefits from the Veterans Affairs Department as part of the make-work-pay tax credit, and $1.2 billion for veterans’ medical facilities repairs throughout the country.

Republicans voted against ensuring that activated military reservists do not suffer a pay cut by providing a tax credit for small businesses employers who continue to pay their National Guard and Reserve employees when they are called up to serve.

Under President George W. Bush it was even worse.

Republicans voted against a $1,500 bonus for troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan while voting for a pay raise for them. [H.R. 3289, Vote #554, 10/17/03. Rejected 213-213].

The Bush administration cut off veterans’ health care for veterans who make as little as $26,000 a year in the lead up to the Iraq War, which resulted in more than 1.6 million veterans being denied VA health care over four years.

As the Iraq War began, House Republicans voted to cut $14 billion from veterans’ health care and $14 billion from veterans’ benefits, including veterans’ pensions, compensation, and education. This could have denied health care to 168,000 veterans, or cut the number of VA nurses by 8,700.[H Con. Res. 95, 2003 Vote #82, 3/21/03]

Republicans voted for the FY 2007 budget that hurts America’s veterans, including cuts in health care totaling $6 billion and as much as tripling TRICARE health care costs for military retirees under 65. [HCR376, 5/18/2006, Vote# 158]

President Obama on the other hand, has taken historic action in support of our troops and veterans such as:

Enacting the new G.I. Bill to provide returning troops with a full, four-year college education.

He is enacting historic investments in veterans’ health care and services, and ensuring that funding one year in advance to prevent political or legislative delays.

He has expanded economic opportunities for returning soldiers. He also enacted landmark legislation providing support to family members and others who care for wounded veterans, and enhancing health services for the 1.8 million women veterans.

Making speeches on town hall steps is all very well, and while it’s nice to hear, “Thanks for your service”, but it’s really time for our politicians to put up or shut up.

Kevin Roberts, USMC Veteran,

Pleasantville


Republicans Should Support Veterans | The Examiner News

 

[The Rabbi]

I didnt realize McCain was elected to represent veterans. I figured he was the senator from Arizona.

 

[francoHFW]

No he hasn't, he has not spent one dime on AZ with pork barrel spending.
I know because I am from AZ.
He also works to get the stupid pork barrel out in many of the bills.

As PolitiFact writer John Frank pointed out earlier this year, McCain has rarely sought pork, but he has on a few occasions, such as his 2006 legislation that asked for $10-million for an academic center at the University of Arizona to honor the late Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Or McCain's 2003 effort to use federal funds to buy property to create a buffer zone around Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, or his 1992 request that the Environmental Protection Agency provide $5-million toward a wastewater project in Nogales, Ariz.

While McCain advocates have argued in the past that these projects don't meet the definition of pork-barrel spending, pork critics disagree.

"If it doesn't meet the technical term of earmark, it would probably meet the public idea of one," Pete Sepp, a vice president at the conservative, anti-pork National Taxpayers Union, told the New York Times in reference to the Rehnquist center request.

well then don't vote for McCain. easy as that.

Ever learn anything? Pub dupes!

Booosh administration lied, thousands died. Trillions spent for nothing. The whole country was jingo/rushed into war, including Dems. France was right, as usual. Bought off Pubs suq.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Voting Against Veterans

# Veterans Groups Give McCain Failing Grades. In its most recent legislative ratings, the non-partisan Disabled American Veterans gave Sen. McCain a 20 percent rating for his voting record on veterans' issues. Similarly, the non-partisan Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America gave McCain a "D" grade for his poor voting record on veterans' issues, including McCain's votes against additional body armor for troops in combat and additional funding for PTSD and TBI screening and treatment.

# McCain Voted Against Increased Funding for Veterans' Health Care. Although McCain told voters at a campaign rally that improving veterans' health care was his top domestic priority, he voted against increasing funding for veterans' health care in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. (Greenville News, 12/12/2007; S.Amdt. 2745 to S.C.R. 95, Vote 40, 3/10/04; Senate S.C.R. 18, Vote 55, 3/16/05; S.Amdt. 3007 to S.C.R. 83, Vote 41, 3/14/06; H.R. 1591, Vote 126, 3/29/07)

# McCain Voted At Least 28 Times Against Veterans' Benefits, Including Healthcare. Since arriving in the U.S. Senate in 1987, McCain has voted at least 28 times against ensuring important benefits for America's veterans, including providing adequate healthcare. (2006 Senate Vote #7, 41, 63, 67, 98, 222; 2005 Senate Votes #55, 89, 90, 251, 343; 2004 Senate Votes #40, 48, 145; 2003 Senate Votes #74, 81, 83; 1999 Senate Vote #328; 1998 Senate Vote #175; 1997 Senate Vote #168; 1996 Senate Votes #115, 275; 1995 Senate Votes #76, 226, 466; 1994 Senate Vote #306; 1992 Senate Vote #194; 1991 Senate Vote #259)

VetVoice:: McCain's Miserable Record of Not Supporting America's Troops and Veterans

and so did any of these bills he voted against have bullshit in them?......how much money in those bills after the pork has been distributed go to the Vets?.....if its a 50 Billion Bill for the Vets.....50 Billion should go for the Vets.....not whats left.....otherwise it should not be called a Bill for the Vets.....

 

[Stephanie]

As PolitiFact writer John Frank pointed out earlier this year, McCain has rarely sought pork, but he has on a few occasions, such as his 2006 legislation that asked for $10-million for an academic center at the University of Arizona to honor the late Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Or McCain's 2003 effort to use federal funds to buy property to create a buffer zone around Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, or his 1992 request that the Environmental Protection Agency provide $5-million toward a wastewater project in Nogales, Ariz.

While McCain advocates have argued in the past that these projects don't meet the definition of pork-barrel spending, pork critics disagree.

"If it doesn't meet the technical term of earmark, it would probably meet the public idea of one," Pete Sepp, a vice president at the conservative, anti-pork National Taxpayers Union, told the New York Times in reference to the Rehnquist center request.

well then don't vote for McCain. easy as that.

Ever learn anything? Pub dupes!

Booosh administration lied, thousands died. Trillions spent for nothing. The whole country was jingo/rushed into war, including Dems. France was right, as usual. Bought off Pubs suq.

do you know how to keep to a topic...? somehow I doubt it.

 

[merrill]

Voting Against Veterans

# Veterans Groups Give McCain Failing Grades. In its most recent legislative ratings, the non-partisan Disabled American Veterans gave Sen. McCain a 20 percent rating for his voting record on veterans' issues. Similarly, the non-partisan Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America gave McCain a "D" grade for his poor voting record on veterans' issues, including McCain's votes against additional body armor for troops in combat and additional funding for PTSD and TBI screening and treatment.

# McCain Voted Against Increased Funding for Veterans' Health Care. Although McCain told voters at a campaign rally that improving veterans' health care was his top domestic priority, he voted against increasing funding for veterans' health care in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. (Greenville News, 12/12/2007; S.Amdt. 2745 to S.C.R. 95, Vote 40, 3/10/04; Senate S.C.R. 18, Vote 55, 3/16/05; S.Amdt. 3007 to S.C.R. 83, Vote 41, 3/14/06; H.R. 1591, Vote 126, 3/29/07)

# McCain Voted At Least 28 Times Against Veterans' Benefits, Including Healthcare. Since arriving in the U.S. Senate in 1987, McCain has voted at least 28 times against ensuring important benefits for America's veterans, including providing adequate healthcare. (2006 Senate Vote #7, 41, 63, 67, 98, 222; 2005 Senate Votes #55, 89, 90, 251, 343; 2004 Senate Votes #40, 48, 145; 2003 Senate Votes #74, 81, 83; 1999 Senate Vote #328; 1998 Senate Vote #175; 1997 Senate Vote #168; 1996 Senate Votes #115, 275; 1995 Senate Votes #76, 226, 466; 1994 Senate Vote #306; 1992 Senate Vote #194; 1991 Senate Vote #259)

VetVoice:: McCain's Miserable Record of Not Supporting America's Troops and Veterans

and so did any of these bills he voted against have bullshit in them?......how much money in those bills after the pork has been distributed go to the Vets?.....if its a 50 Billion Bill for the Vets.....50 Billion should go for the Vets.....not whats left.....otherwise it should not be called a Bill for the Vets.....

What BS was in the bills? Perhaps the BS was coming from republicans.

Republicans Should Support Veterans | The Examiner News

 

[bodecea]

Your organization is determined to squander America's investment in peace in the middle east by jerking every last American soldier out of the Middle East. I hold you responsible for this squandering of our soldiers' gifts of hard work and fighting and winning for the defeat your sour leader is bringing about by jerking them off the job before peace is a certainty there.

You think our tax dollars should be squandered, don't you. To sate your lust for total control over America and to put it in harm's way.

We Republicans are not going to let you get away with it with your lies and party bullshit.

SO RINO Glen Beck is running your life. Beck is a reliable source for fraudulent information.

and you're nothing more than a huffington post zombie...I'd even question if you were ever in the military

Why would you question that, Stephanie? Because he does not talk of the military you knew when you were in?

 

[bodecea]

Voting Against Veterans

# Veterans Groups Give McCain Failing Grades. In its most recent legislative ratings, the non-partisan Disabled American Veterans gave Sen. McCain a 20 percent rating for his voting record on veterans' issues. Similarly, the non-partisan Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America gave McCain a "D" grade for his poor voting record on veterans' issues, including McCain's votes against additional body armor for troops in combat and additional funding for PTSD and TBI screening and treatment.

# McCain Voted Against Increased Funding for Veterans' Health Care. Although McCain told voters at a campaign rally that improving veterans' health care was his top domestic priority, he voted against increasing funding for veterans' health care in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. (Greenville News, 12/12/2007; S.Amdt. 2745 to S.C.R. 95, Vote 40, 3/10/04; Senate S.C.R. 18, Vote 55, 3/16/05; S.Amdt. 3007 to S.C.R. 83, Vote 41, 3/14/06; H.R. 1591, Vote 126, 3/29/07)

# McCain Voted At Least 28 Times Against Veterans' Benefits, Including Healthcare. Since arriving in the U.S. Senate in 1987, McCain has voted at least 28 times against ensuring important benefits for America's veterans, including providing adequate healthcare. (2006 Senate Vote #7, 41, 63, 67, 98, 222; 2005 Senate Votes #55, 89, 90, 251, 343; 2004 Senate Votes #40, 48, 145; 2003 Senate Votes #74, 81, 83; 1999 Senate Vote #328; 1998 Senate Vote #175; 1997 Senate Vote #168; 1996 Senate Votes #115, 275; 1995 Senate Votes #76, 226, 466; 1994 Senate Vote #306; 1992 Senate Vote #194; 1991 Senate Vote #259)

VetVoice:: McCain's Miserable Record of Not Supporting America's Troops and Veterans

Vetvoice must be an anti-american, anti military source.