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REPUBLICAN PRESS RELEASE

March 8, 2007

VA Economic Opportunity subcommittee hears testimony on performance, staffing, and services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Veterans’ Employment and Training Service of the Department of Labor

Washington D.C. - The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity held an oversight hearing today to examine the performance, staffing, and services provided by the Education, Loan Guaranty, and Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) of the Department of Labor.

The goal was to advance its bipartisan legislative agenda to review the performance of the several benefits programs under its jurisdiction and to determine resource needs for each.

“The challenge is before VA and VETS to make programs work. It is clear that the people expect not just programs, but ones that actually deliver the goods to the beneficiaries,” said Ranking Member John Boozman (R-Ark.).

“We need to get the processing times down for both VR&E and education. Last session, we mandates a report on streamlining education processing and I hope the department will send us a legislative proposal to change the way they do business if that is required,” Boozman said.

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Larry Scott

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