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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Florida Delegation Votes Against Veterans

Florida Delegation Votes Against Veterans

From Florida Veterans For Common Sense
As reported by the Sarasota Herald Tribune the House of Representatives voted against veterans last week on an important issue. As we know, VA has an outrageous backlog of claims and terrible waits to have the claims determined.

The house refused to fund the cost of hiring 94 claims processors in addition to the 94 new positions already funded in the underlying bill.

The Florida Delegation voted as follows:
Dist 1 Jeff Miller(R)NO
Dist 2 Steve Sutherland(R)NO
Dist 3 Ted Yoho(R)NO
Dist 4 Ander Crenshaw(R)NO
Dist 5 Corrine Brown(D)YES
Dist 6 Ron DeSantis(R)NO
Dist 7 John Mica(R)NO
Dist 8 Bill Posey(R)YES
Dist 9 Alan Grayson(D)YES
Dist 10 Daniel Webster(R)NO
Dist 11 Richard Nugent(R)NO
Dist 12 Gus Bilirakis(R)NO
Dist 13 W. Bill Young(R)NO
Dist 14 Kathy Castor(D)Yes
Dist 15 Dennis Ross(R)NO
Dist 16 Vern Buchanan(R)NO
Dist 17 Thomas Rooney(R)NO
Dist 18 Patrick Murphy(D)YES
Dist 19 Trey Radel(R)NO
Dist 20 Alcee Hastings(D)YES
Dist 21 Theodore Deutch(D)YES
Dist 22 Lois Frankel(D)YES
Dist 23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz(D)YES
Dist 24 Frederica Wilson(D)YES
Dist 25 Mario Diaz-Balart(R)NO
Dist 26 Joe Garcia(D)YES
Dist 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen(R)NO

Note: They vote to fund war, but not to support the troops on their return home.

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