Bush Cautious About Veterans
Sand-man
> From: JSilv...@aol.com
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:35:12 EDT
> Subject: Fwd: Fw: Bush Cautious About Veterans
> Bill;7/19/01
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> From: "avalon bruce" <ava...@nwol.net>
> To: "victor silvester" <jsilv...@aol.com>,
> "steve yellow hand" <yello...@lycos.com>
> Subject: Fw: Bush Cautious About Veterans
> Bill;7/19/01
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 14:15:35 -0500
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> fyi, in case you didn't already get this. av
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Morgan W. Brown <morga...@hotmail.com>
> To: <home...@csf.colorado.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 6:22 PM
> Subject: Bush Cautious About Veterans Bill;7/19/01
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> >
> > Hot off the wire and will probably be in
> tomorrow's (Friday's) newspapers:
> >
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> > -------Forwarded article-------
> >
> > Thursday July 19 6:37 PM ET
> >
> > Bush Cautious About Veterans Bill
> >
> <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010719/pl/homeless_veterans_1.html>
> >
> > By FREDERIC J. FROMMER, Associated Press Writer
> >
> > WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation aimed at increasing
> services for homeless
> > veterans could actually cause the Department of
> Veterans Affairs (news -
> web
> > sites) to reduce some services, a Bush
> > administration official said Thursday.
> >
> > The Heather French Henry Homeless Veterans
> Assistance Act, named for last
> > year's Miss America (news - web sites), would,
> among other things,
> increase
> > the number of veterans eligible for expensive
> > ``complex care'' from VA hospitals.
> >
> > Thomas L. Garthwaite, the department's
> undersecretary for health,
> testified
> > at a Senate hearing that limited resources would
> cause the department to
> cut
> > funding per veteran if this provision passed.
> >
> > The bill's sponsor, Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn.,
> said that if the issue
> is
> > lack of money, the department should receive more.
> ``You're in a way
> making
> > this a zero-sum game,'' said Wellstone, chairman
> of
> > Thursday's hearing of the Veterans' Affairs
> Committee.
> >
> > ``For us, it is a bit of a zero-sum game,''
> Garthwaite responded, ``with
> > overall budgets and competing demands.''
> >
> > The Congressional Budget Office (news - web sites)
> has estimated the
> > legislation would cost about $900 million over six
> years, should Congress
> > approve the funding necessary for health care and
> other
> > provisions.
> >
> > Garthwaite, a Clinton administration holdover who
> will soon leave his
> post,
> > said the department supports the bill's objectives
> and many of its
> > provisions. He said several others were
> unnecessary because they
> duplicated
> > existing services.
> >
> > The legislation would provide outreach to veterans
> at risk for becoming
> > homeless and support for veterans who are
> homeless; strengthen Veterans
> > Affairs transitional housing; and expand a federal
> > program aimed at assisting homeless veterans find
> jobs.
> >
> > Its stated goal is to end homelessness among
> veterans within a decade.
> >
> > Garthwaite agreed that the federal government
> needs to do more to help
> > homeless veterans. He said the department is only
> able to help 50,000 of
> the
> > estimated 300,000 homeless vets.
> >
> > Sen. Arlen Specter (news - bio - voting record),
> R-Pa., said the federal
> > government should look at consolidating many of
> the homeless veterans
> > programs that already exist and are spread out
> over eight
> > departments, before Congress moves forward with
> the bill.
> >
> > ``Aren't we chasing our tails here?'' he asked.
> >
> > Twelve senators have signed on as co-sponsors. All
> are Democrats.
> >
> > -
> >
> > The bill is S. 739
> >
> > -
> >
> > On the Net:
> >
> > Department of Veterans Affairs: http://www.va.gov/
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
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> >
> > -------End of forward-------
> >
> > Morgan <morga...@hotmail.com>
> > Morgan W. Brown
> > Montpelier Vermont USA
> >
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