ELECTION 2010: Top Military Veteran Advocates Removed from Congress

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VETERANS FURIOUS OVER LOSS OF REPRESENTATION IN WASHINGTON D.C.

As noted by Veterans for Common Sense, VCS Out of 18 Democrats on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, 13 or 14 will be gone by January 2011

ArmyTimes – Tuesday’s elections swept some key Democrats from House of Representatives, including the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and the first Iraq war veteran elected to Congress.

Also gone is a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee who was one of the key proponents of improvement in military family housing and barracks, the House Budget Committee chairman who made sure there was money for improvement in military pay and benefits, and chairman of the veterans’ disability assistance subcommittee who have been pushing to eliminate the backlog of veterans’ benefits claims while trying to reduce the number of errors.

The lawmakers were defeated in an election that will result in control of the House of Representatives shifting in January to Republicans.

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