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08-26-2014, 04:55 PM
FACT SHEET: President Obama Announces New Executive Actions to Fulfill our Promises to Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/26/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-executive-actions-fulfill-our-p
And :
http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG-14-02603-267.pdf
Obama Wades Into North Carolina Battleground To Announce Reforms for Veterans (http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/08/26/3475793/obama-north-carolina-veterans/)
Speaking in the midterm battleground state of North Carolina at one of the nation’s biggest annual gatherings of veterans, President Obama unveiled a host of new executive actions (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/26/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-executive-actions-fulfill-our-p)Tuesday to address the problems former service members face in obtaining health care (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/05/30/3443135/4-ways-to-fix-the-current-va-crisis/),going to college (http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/06/26/506645/predatory-military-for-profits/), and buying a home (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/05/336351/lawsuit-alleges-nations-biggest-banks-defrauded-veterans/).
“I want you to know directly from me that we are focused on this at the highest levels,” he told (http://www.c-span.org/video/?321148-1/president-obama-speech-american-legion-convention) the American Legion’s annual convention. “We are going to get to the bottom of these problems, we are going to fix what is wrong, we are going to do right by you, we are going to do right by your families. That is a solemn pledge.”
The speech in Charlotte, North Carolina comes in the midst of one of the tightest and most expensive (http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?disp=R) Senate race in the nation. Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis, who is attempting to unseat Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan, has used the VA scandal (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/north-carolina-sen-kay-hagan-braces-obamas-visit-state/) and other national issues to portray his opponent as a carbon-copy of the President.
Senator Hagan, who is considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats in this year’s elections, was also at the conference, and spoke about the need for “a complete change in culture at the VA.”
She also sought this week (http://www.kayhagan.com/release/speaker-tillis-agenda-failed-nc-veterans/) to paint her opponent as the anti-veteran candidate. She points out that in his tenure as House Speaker,
Tillis has opposed raising the minimum wage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWb3PFcdI08), expanding Medicaid (http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/voteHistory/RollCallVoteTranscript.pl?sSession=2013&sChamber=H&RCS=69), regulating predatory payday lending companies (http://www.heraldsun.com/news/blog/state/x1065838518/AP-Lender-hosts-Tillis-event-days-after-bill-passes) and extending theEarned Income Tax Credit (http://www.ncjustice.org/sites/default/files/Military%20EITC%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf)—all issues that directly impact tens of thousands of military families in North Carolina.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/08/26/3475793/obama-north-carolina-veterans/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/26/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-executive-actions-fulfill-our-p
And :
http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG-14-02603-267.pdf
Obama Wades Into North Carolina Battleground To Announce Reforms for Veterans (http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/08/26/3475793/obama-north-carolina-veterans/)
Speaking in the midterm battleground state of North Carolina at one of the nation’s biggest annual gatherings of veterans, President Obama unveiled a host of new executive actions (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/26/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-executive-actions-fulfill-our-p)Tuesday to address the problems former service members face in obtaining health care (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/05/30/3443135/4-ways-to-fix-the-current-va-crisis/),going to college (http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/06/26/506645/predatory-military-for-profits/), and buying a home (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/05/336351/lawsuit-alleges-nations-biggest-banks-defrauded-veterans/).
“I want you to know directly from me that we are focused on this at the highest levels,” he told (http://www.c-span.org/video/?321148-1/president-obama-speech-american-legion-convention) the American Legion’s annual convention. “We are going to get to the bottom of these problems, we are going to fix what is wrong, we are going to do right by you, we are going to do right by your families. That is a solemn pledge.”
The speech in Charlotte, North Carolina comes in the midst of one of the tightest and most expensive (http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?disp=R) Senate race in the nation. Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis, who is attempting to unseat Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan, has used the VA scandal (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/north-carolina-sen-kay-hagan-braces-obamas-visit-state/) and other national issues to portray his opponent as a carbon-copy of the President.
Senator Hagan, who is considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats in this year’s elections, was also at the conference, and spoke about the need for “a complete change in culture at the VA.”
She also sought this week (http://www.kayhagan.com/release/speaker-tillis-agenda-failed-nc-veterans/) to paint her opponent as the anti-veteran candidate. She points out that in his tenure as House Speaker,
Tillis has opposed raising the minimum wage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWb3PFcdI08), expanding Medicaid (http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/voteHistory/RollCallVoteTranscript.pl?sSession=2013&sChamber=H&RCS=69), regulating predatory payday lending companies (http://www.heraldsun.com/news/blog/state/x1065838518/AP-Lender-hosts-Tillis-event-days-after-bill-passes) and extending theEarned Income Tax Credit (http://www.ncjustice.org/sites/default/files/Military%20EITC%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf)—all issues that directly impact tens of thousands of military families in North Carolina.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/08/26/3475793/obama-north-carolina-veterans/