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Derrick Van Orden: “VA has a profound and constant inability to perform the…”

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

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Van Orden Questions VBA on Restoring VR&E Program in Economic Opportunity Subcommittee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 01:45

There's got to be a better balance of priorities in the program to make sure that veterans get what they need while also ensuring that the VA is a responsible steward of the taxpayers investment. And I found that this is a responsibility that VA has a profound and constant inability to perform the oversight function. But I'm also going to point the finger this way. We have an oversight responsibility, you have an oversight responsibility. And I think both sides of this fence have not been meeting that. (01:45–01:52)

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Asserts that the VA is unable to perform oversight effectively.

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