Daines Fights to Bring Accountability to the VA

Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Steve Daines today joined the House in passing legislation providing the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) Secretary more latitude to remove ineffective high-level employees.

The Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014 (H.R. 4031), which Daines has co-sponsored, would give the VA Secretary the authority to remove employees of the Senior Executive Service due to poor performance.

Daines spoke on the House floor today to urge support for H.R. 4031 and call on the VA to provide Montana's veterans with the answers and accountability they deserve.

"Like many Montanans, I am outraged by reports that a number of VA clinics have failed to give our veterans the care and honor they deserve," Daines stated."These clinics deliberately covered up delays that may have ultimately led to the preventable deaths of at least forty veterans. Yet the VA executives at these troubled facilities are more likely to be given a bonus than face any sort of accountability. This is disgraceful, and I stand with the millions of Americans who are demanding accountability from the VA."

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