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Derrick Van Orden: “I get letters from the VA all the time. I'm 100% service…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

Derrick Van Orden Leads House Subcommittee Hearing on VA Adaptive Programs and Veteran Support

Published May 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 19:28

It'll be a bipartisan effort because this, again, is wholly unacceptable. So, last thing, my time has expired, so I'm gonna recognize the ranking member for any closing. We're out of here. Look, I get letters from the VA all the time. I'm 100% service connected. Disabled vet. You can sign up for emails, they call you. Right? So why in the hell do our disabled veterans not know about these programs? We know where they're. (19:28–19:34)

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Asserts personal experience as a 100% service-connected disabled veteran receiving VA communications.

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“VA's adaptive sports program serves thousands of veterans across the country and plays an important role in disabled veterans regaining…”
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“It's just baffling to me that any veteran, especially someone who's being medically discharged, is unaware of these programs. That is a…”
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“These programs will be introduced into the TAP program.”
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“We had one dental clinician in the Network for Community Care. I went there. It was an hour drive. It took the VA so long to pay him that…”
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“There should be no expedited process. Every process should be expedited.”
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“TAP is supposed to be done six months prior and then iterative.”
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“The Veterans Affairs Administration is not a jobs program.”
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“Our wounded veterans are trapped in a chair for the rest of their lives. You know what I mean? They can't speak, they can't see, they can't…”
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“Establish metrics. I mean, do you have any quantifiable metric at all for anything you're doing?”
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“We're going to write some legislation to catch you guys up. That'll be. We'll introduce it together. It'll be a bipartisan effort.”
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“We know where all of these people are. We literally can assign a geographic point to their house.”
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“I guarantee you the secretary is either unaware of this or he doesn't understand how large this problem is.”
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“If one of my veterans who got blown up overseas or God forbid something else happened to him doesn't know about this, it's your fault.”
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“We'll continue to consult with the Veterans Affairs Administration.”
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