BREAKING! GOP Gives VA Execs Legal Consequences As Lawmakers Stand Up For Our Vets! Lawmakers in the House approved a Bill that will make it much easier to fire VA employees who are negligent or do poor performance work along with any misconduct. This Bill is long over due since the VA scandal began two years ago. Veterans were dying before they could get treatment and many had to wait 6 months or more to be seen. The medical record keeping was fudged by workers illegally. They got caught but Obama did not serve them any consequences for their malpractice and neglect of our brave veterans awaiting care. Absolutely nothing was done but more talk about what they plan to do to make it easier and sooner for veterans to see a doctor. This effort was flawed and word got out that the vets are still waiting for long periods to be seen by a doctor. GOP lawmakers have urged the VA to fire more workers to improve the scandal-plagued agency. The Republican-sponsored bill was approved this week, 310-116. Sixty-nine Democrats and 241 Republicans voted for the bill. This Bill would shorten the time employees are given to respond to proposed discipline or firing and would eliminate a provision that allows senior executives to appeal disciplinary actions to an independent review board. Jeff Miller, the House VA Committee Chairman stated, pervasive lack of accountability among employees at all levels is the biggest obstacle standing in the way of VA reform. Miller, R-Fla., said reform efforts are doomed to fail until the problem of employee accountability is fixed. For too long, union bosses, administration officials and their enablers have used every trick in the book to help VA bureaucrats who cant or wont do their jobs remain firmly entrenched in the agencys bureaucracy, he said. The accountability bill he sponsored gets rid of loopholes that have protected deadwood employees for years, Miller said. Union bosses and defenders of the broken status quo will oppose this bill, and that is exactly why it must become law. The Senate bill would grant the VA secretary greater authority to discipline senior executives, while requiring appeals to be decided within 90 days. According to an article in Fox News,the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents 230,000 VA employees arent happy with the bill. They said the bill would undermine veterans health care and other services by gutting employees due process rights to challenge wrongful firing or retaliation against whistle blowers. David Cox Sr., the union president saidIf Congress passes this bill, front line employees who dare to speak up against mismanagement and patient harm will face retaliation, harassment and the loss of their jobs, He called this Billa partisan effort to allow favoritism and cronyism by turning VA workers into at-will employees who can be fired at any time with little to no recourse. The Obama administration opposes the bill, saying it could undermine VAs workforce and ultimately hinder services to veterans. H/T: Fox News 