Care-less homecoming for vets
July 4, 2005
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., last week tried questioning Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson about the hole in his budget. She wanted to know why his
Veterans’ Needs: Funding about-face
July 1, 2005
“It was not easy for them to eat crow on this,” Murray said Wednesday night from Capitol Hill, in reference to Republican senators who had
Why did VA shun funding for health care?
July 1, 2005
“The VA is struggling to deal with existing veterans, and I fear what will happen when tens of thousands of new veterans are added to
Sen. Murray’s war for U.S. veterans
July 1, 2005
America’s men and women in uniform have performed magnificently. To imagine the U.S. would renege on a contract to provide for their physical and mental
Veteran health care gets $1.5 billion
June 30, 2005
“Veterans are not a Republican issue, not a Democratic issue, they are an American issue,” Murray said on the Senate floor. “I commend our colleagues
