I will be in Washington working
for 2 full days this up and coming
week.

The legislative language is done
for the Fort McClellan Bill on
the HOUSE side, but the session
is in recess until September.
I'll be going around to meet
with key staffers in locating a
sponsor for the submission.

A letter has been sent on
our behalf by a supporting
Alabama congressional to the
VA Secretary's Liason who I met
with back in January, however,
a bit of a story has developed
in that matter. The Liason has
apparently been assigned for
a temporary period spanning
a few months, to another location
at VA's hand. So it has become
a confused story where they are
unable to verify if the Liason
actually received the letter.
They were working on a backup
FAX when I talked to them on
Wednesday.

This is the second time at the
VA we have been forced to endure
such delays. Another key contact
at the VA who we were working
one on one with, named Dave
Abbott, was inadvertently assigned
to Germany for 6 months without
telling anybody, and those of
us who had pending issues to work
in that office were expected to
sit around until after he got
back. They do NOT hand off to
co-workers at all, and it's the
dumbest thing I have ever seen
to date at the agency. I don't
know of any other place that does
such a thing knowing full well
that medical patients are waiting
for a course of action.

The Senate has been an endless
merry-go-round of dysfunctionals
and idiots who either don't return
phone calls or communicate on
the progress of an issue developing
for legislation. The man I met
with in July up and quit his job
to return to school about 3 days
after I was there, never indicating
to me that this was in the works.
So it's back to Square 1 to find
somebody with a brain who can
actually work an issue at the
Senate side.

The key problem here is the House
has many Subcommittees and each
of those have their own staff.
At the Senate, there is only 1
committee staff and no subcommittees
so the environment is harder to
work in by reason of the very
way they are set up.

I have several destinations that
I will be stopping at to compile
or drop off information so I'll
know more from all of that when
I get back.