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For Immediate Release
07/25/2007
Pelosi Statement on Report of President’s Commission on Wounded Warriors
Washington,
D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi
issued the following statement after a presidential commission released its
recommendations on improving health care for our wounded soldiers. Speaker Pelosi will meet tomorrow with the
co-chairs of the President’s Commission
on Care for America’s
Returning Wounded Warriors, former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna
Shalala and former Senator Bob Dole.
"The Commission on Wounded Warriors report can only
serve to better inform the Administration about the pressing health care needs
of America’s
veterans and make the case for the substantial VA health care increases.
"I appreciate Senator Dole and Secretary Shalala’s
willingness to again serve America.
Democrats certainly agree with the report’s conclusions that call for
‘fundamental changes’ in the system and ‘aggressive treatment’ of Iraq’s
signature wounds. That is why we have
voted for historic commitments to ensure that America’s
veterans and troops returning home from IraqAfghanistan
receive the quality, timely health care that they were promised and that they
deserve.
"With the House-passed VA appropriations bill, which
includes the largest increase in veterans funding in the 77-year history of the
VA, and the Wounded Warriors bill that has now passed the House and Senate, we
will be able to deliver on our promises to America’s veterans."