VFW says "Continuing Resolutions, bad way to run government"

VA benefit payments will go out on time; VFW calls for funding change
AL.com
Leada Gore
October 17, 2013

The end of the stalemate over the government shutdown and the debt ceiling will allow the Veterans Administration to make next month's benefit payments on time.

The VA said as many as five million veterans, survivors and their families risked not receiving benefits after Nov. 1 if the Congress failed to reach a deal to end the shutdown. An ongoing shutdown would have also cut off education benefits and living stipends under the GI Bill programs, which could have impacted an additional 500,000 veterans and service members.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars said it was glad Congress had ended the shutdown but said the practice of using Continuing Resolutions - a funding mechanism that takes the place of a regular appropriations agreement - is a bad way to run the government.
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