Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is giving endangered Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, a legislative gift ahead of next week’s election.
Reid sent Begich a letter dated Oct. 28 saying he plans to hold a vote in the lame duck on a Begich bill funding veterans programs.
“As I plan our Senate agenda for November, I recall our conversations about veterans and your advocacy for their rights,” Reid said in a short Oct. 28 letter to Begich. “With Veterans Day approaching, I have decided that your bipartisan bill…will be taken up by the Senate for vote. It is indeed the right thing for our nation’s veterans.”
“Your have been a tireless advocate for Alaskas’s 73,000 veterans and veterans throughout the country,” Reid continued. “Your important bill will go a long way to ensuring secure funding for America’s veterans.”
The letter comes as Begich is in a difficult race to retain his seat to represent a GOP-leaning state and in the second midterm of an unpopular Democratic president. The Rothenberg Political Report/Roll Call rates the race against Republican Dan Sullivan as a Tossup/Tilts Republican.
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Erik Burney / November 1, 2014
This retired Master Sergeant is not impressed with Mr Begich’s hollow, 11th hour pandering. Where was he 3 years ago when senior VA managers were giving themselves bonus’ while veterans were dying in line? As a majority member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs he was in prime position to hold the VA and it’s leaders accountable. What was his solution? To throw good money after bad to the tune of 17 billion dollars–on top of the 160 billion the VA already gets annually? Calling for more tax dollars, to further bloat an already bloated, systemically failed agency is not leadership.
I’m casting my vote for the guy who, as we speak, commands combat ready Marines. It takes a veteran to truly understand what’s important to veterans. Mark Begich isn’t that man.
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Erik Burney / November 1, 2014
This retired Master Sergeant is not impressed with Mr Begich’s hollow, 11th hour pandering. Where was he 3 years ago when senior VA managers were giving themselves bonus’ while veterans were dying in line? As a majority member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs he was in prime position to hold the VA and it’s leaders accountable. What was his solution? To throw good money after bad to the tune of 17 billion dollars–on top of the 160 billion the VA already gets annually? Calling for more tax dollars, to further bloat an already bloated, systemically failed agency is not leadership.
I’m casting my vote for the guy who, as we speak, commands combat ready Marines. It takes a veteran to truly understand what’s important to veterans. Mark Begich isn’t that man.
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