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Dr. Boozman's Check-up

Benghazi, the backlog at the VA and my first online town hall were at the top of the list of a very busy week in Washington.

  • The Questions Surrounding the Administration’s Benghazi Claims:  The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee heard testimony this week from career diplomats stationed in Libya about what happened before and during the Benghazi terror attack of September 11, 2012. Watch as I lay out my concerns about the accounts in this edition of “From the Mailbag.”
     
  • Unclog the VA: Our veterans and their families have sacrificed to serve our country and we must protect and provide the care they earned. That’s why I recently raised an extremely troubling problem with the administration that is affecting hundreds of thousands of our nation’s veterans—the claims backlog at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

  • Staying in Touch While in Washington: I held my first Crowd Hall online town hall this week and fielded a number of questions on the online sales tax, immigration, tax reform, Obamacare, spending and more. Read all the questions, comments and my responses here.

  • Helping Servicemembers Transition to Civilian Life: We joined Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Jon Tester (D-MT) to introduce legislation allowing servicemembers to use their GI Bill benefits to provide them with the tools for a successful transition into civilian life by requiring that men and women leaving military life be given the choice of education tracks as part of mandatory Transitional Assistance Program (TAP) classes.

  • Reviewing Illegal Abortion Practices: You may have read about the horrible atrocities surrounding the case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia doctor who performed late-term abortions and is on trial for allegedly killing several newborn babies and a patient. My colleagues and I introduced a resolution Monday asking to review public policies that led to these illegal abortion practices and calls on Congress “to investigate and correct abusive, unsanitary, and illegal abortion practices.”

  • The AMMO Act: You’ve read the news reports, heard from your neighbors and friends or and maybe even seen firsthand that there is an ammunition shortage. I cosponsored the “Ammunition Management for More Obtainability (AMMO) Act of 2013.” This prohibits agencies covered by this legislation from purchasing or storing more ammunition than it retained on average between 2001 and 2009. The AMMO Act would require the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit federal agencies purchases of ammunition. Read more about it here
  • Visiting with Arkansas Teens: I met this week with Tiffany Easter of Sheridan and Blake Abston of Little Rock, who were recently named Arkansas’s top two youth volunteers of 2013 by the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. Read their uplifting stories here