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Daily Caller | Democrats shoot down bill to increase transparency about long VA wait times
House Democrats voted against a bill intended to increase transparency into the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) wait time calculations at a committee markup Wednesday, as complaints mount that the VA is fudging data.
“VA’s past and current wait time measurements are flawed, inaccurate, and deceptive – they do not follow the VA Mission Act law and the Veterans Community Care Program regulation,” Darin Selnick, a senior adviser to Concerned Veterans for America and former top adviser to the VA Secretary, told Fox News.
Albany Times Union | Commentary: Congress must reassert authority over America's wars
Twenty years ago, Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002. Commonly known as the “Iraq AUMF,” this joint resolution sanctioned “shock and awe,” the invasion and occupation that followed, and the deposal of Saddam Hussein.
Today, the 2002 AUMF is strategically irrelevant and legally redundant. Its purpose expired with the end of the Iraq War, and no ongoing military operations in the Middle East depend upon this authorization as their primary legal justification.
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