Congress is responsible for legislating, funding, monitoring, regulating, oversight and investigating the federal agencies in the executive branch. It was their job to investigate any problems that the VA might have and to help provide a solution or remedy. They've known about the back log at the VA at least since 2003. But they seem to have failed to do their job to even provide oversight for the VA.....until last week. If it weren't for media they probably wouldn't have done anything at all.
Obama ignored 3 IG reports and 1 audit that has already been done.
Congress is responsible for legislating, funding, monitoring, regulating, oversight and investigating the federal agencies in the executive branch. It was their job to investigate any problems that the VA might have and to help provide a solution or remedy. They've known about the back log at the VA at least since 2003. But they seem to have failed to do their job to even provide oversight for the VA.....until last week. If it weren't for media they probably wouldn't have done anything at all.
Congressional oversight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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It's almost as if you guys did not believe me back in post #84. But then you must have felt the urge towards extreme leisure with an utter waste of your time.:stoogesYou simply don't know what you're talking about.eace
It's almost as if you guys did not believe me back in post #84. But then you must have felt the urge towards extreme leisure with an utter waste of your time.:stooges
The executive branch isn't the oversight for the VA...congress is.
So how many hearings and investigations did congressional oversight committees have to see if the VA was reducing the waiting list back log?
Well then get used to crisply responding to persistent confusion and a commitment to error as a posting style. As well as a *poof* sound that leaves a vapor trail when at last the commitment to persistent error gets bored and interested in a new batch of errors in another thread.eaceOh knock it off. I spent nearly 34 years in the federal service and the poster to whom I responded was hopelessly confused on the difference between management and oversight. And I had already taken the time earlier to explain that. Persistent error merits a crisp response.eace
For you to ignore one side of a partisan debate exposes the hypocricy and bias in your comment, fmw.
I wonder why the reporters even show up for Carney's press sessions. There is no reason to believe anything he says. I was born during the Roosevelt administration so I've heard a lot of press secretaries. This one lies more than the others combined. it is truly insane. The administration has been aware of the VA problem since the beginning. The prior administration warned them about it. They didn't fix it either. Let's shut the down the VA and simply buy private insurance policies for the veterans. It would save us a lot of money and provide better health care for the veterans.
Whats it say when the President says hes on top of this and then heads off to fundraisers?
Yesterday he went to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and then two DNC fundraisers. That was his work for the day.
It says he really couldn't care less.... and any statements which are made are to placate the masses.
Having spent over three decades in the federal government, I assure you that responsibility and accountability reside exclusively in the executive branch for all federal departments and agencies. Congress has oversight to ensure that responsibility is exercised and accountability is recognized. But Congress has zero responsibility for federal executive management.eace
Your decades in government is totally irrelevant to the discussion.
Not that facts matter to you, but they might to others. Congress is responsible for the oversight of the VA and it says so right here on the congress committees website and they oughta know since they wrote the law ......
The Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives was authorized by enactment of Public Law 601, 79th Congress, which was entitled "Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946." Section 121(a) of this Act provides: "there shall be elected by the House at the commencement of each Congress the following standing committees": Nineteen Committees are listed and No. 18 quotes: "Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to consist of 27 Members." This Act has since been amended so that there are now 22 Standing Committees in the House of Representatives. The number of Members (Representatives) authorized to serve on each Committee has been changed from time to time. There are currently 29 members of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
The Committee on Veterans' Affairs is the authorizing Committee for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Committee recommends legislation expanding, curtailing, or fine-tuning existing laws relating to veterans' benefits. The Committee also has oversight responsibility, which means monitoring and evaluating the operations of the VA. If the Committee finds the that VA is not administering laws as Congress intended, then it is "corrected" through the hearing process and legislation. We are the voice of Congress for veterans in dealings with the VA.
History and Jurisdiction | House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
In all your years in government how come you didn't know that, Jack?
Whats it say when the President says hes on top of this and then heads off to fundraisers?
Yesterday he went to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and then two DNC fundraisers. That was his work for the day.
On the contrary, I testified before oversight committees on several occasions. I'm thoroughly familiar with the process. The point is that oversight is not management and full accountability and management responsibility resides in the executive branch. As I posted earlier, your claims in this thread represent a complete misunderstanding of how the government works.eace
Your anecdotal evidence is still irrelevant. You're the one who is confused, jack....I never said a word about "management"....only "oversight". If you want to continue defending your strawman then go right ahead....but my point stands until you provide a link to some credible evidence that proves otherwise.......
"....The Committee on Veterans' Affairs is the authorizing Committee for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Committee recommends legislation expanding, curtailing, or fine-tuning existing laws relating to veterans' benefits. The Committee also has oversight responsibility, which means monitoring and evaluating the operations of the VA. If the Committee finds the that VA is not administering laws as Congress intended, then it is "corrected" through the hearing process and legislation. We are the voice of Congress for veterans in dealings with the VA....."
History and Jurisdiction | House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Your quote is accurate and makes my point. No one in Congress or on any Congressional staff has any responsibility for what happened at the VA. Not even the WH will claim this was a failure of oversight. Why? Because it wasn't.eace
That doesnt make any sense. Oversight means congress IS responsible for make sure the President is doing his job. Just like its the citizens responsibility to make sure the govt is doing its job. Everyone is to blame.
Management responsibility and accountability for executive agencies (like VA) resides exclusively in the executive branch.eace
And the people who authorize it.