The Senate Committee on Rules and
Administration has long been ignored
by Veterans who are seeking significant
change in Congress and how they
go about doing the business of
Committees.

Veterans up until now, have been
running to the House and Senate
Veterans Affairs Committees for
just about everything under the sun,
with a complete disregard for the
jurisdiction barriers and with
little or no creativity in how
they go about trying to advance
change.

All of the Committees in the House
and the Senate are fair game for
veterans to advocate their legitimate
agendas. This Forum is to introduce
to you the Senate Committee on
Rules and Administration.

Do not underestimate the power of
this Committee. This is a Top
Dog force to be reckoned with
inside the Senate, and if you start
lodging advocacies and complaints
here against the Senate Veterans
Affairs Committee, then you are
reaching into a level of authority
that has gone virtually untapped
by Veterans for all of these decades.

The VSO's do not work here and
the rest of you haven't branched
out far enough to go there and to
learn that you can do this on your
own without VSO's.

There are 2 ways to write a complaint
here at the Rules and Admin Committee:

1. Write a complaint matching up
to the existing rules which are
already listed and active.

2. Write a complaint to advocate
and press for NEW rules to be
enacted and executed within the
body of the Rules authority.

Be warned, I have been there and
talked to them in person and if
you advocate for the establishment
of NEW Rules, they have told me
directly that you should expect
this to be a long process and to
take some time. So it won't happen
fast and you have to be ready
to enter this battle for the long
haul. Very likely they have to
get a 2/3 majority vote from the
entire Senate to add a new rule
or something on that scale to
push anything through. It's doable.

The location of the Rules and Admin
Committee is:

Senate Committee on Rules & Administration
Room 305, Russell Senate Office Building
U.S. Capitol
Washington DC 20510

I will list out the LINKS of interest
to you below, to enter the various
necessary pages of their website. This
includes the JURISDICTION page. Keep
in mind that their Jurisdiction
is written in stone and may not likely
to be ever changed so it would be
a waste of time to try and advocate
for new Jurisdiction on this Committee.

Most congressional authorities are
rooted into the earliest possible
writings of the U.S. Constitution
or the like, so it would be too large
for anyone to try and take on changing
their jurisdiction. Just make sure
that any Rules or Administration that
you try to Advocate for, is very much
within their Jurisdiction page at
the website, and ya can't go wrong.

Now if the Senate Veterans Affairs
Committee is not running up to your
high Vet standards, then this is
where you advocate for change in the
Rules of the Senate OR to gripe about
the Committee members themselves.

This destination would also be a
"higher level" oversight place to
file if you had already filed at
lower places and then received no
action at all or was faked out
by falsified action and papers
that did not address your issue.

If you filed at the VA and got
nothing, then you filed at the
Senate Veterans Committee and
got nothing, then the Rules and
Administration Committee is the
next higher level for you to
enter your gripes to either
match up to existing Rules violations
or to advocate for NEW Rules to
be put into place so that the
Senate Veterans Committee is
forced to take action on your
issue.

Again you have to deliver your
papers in person OR eat a 3 month
delay in mailing down there as
the entire Capitol mail system
is dead on arrival.

Direct LINKS to the Committee's
web pages:

Rules Home Page

http://rules.senate.gov/

Rules Committee Statement of Jurisdiction
(match up to this list)

http://rules.senate.gov/purpose/

The Senate Rules By Category Which
You Can File Complaints Against
Either Naming the Senate Veterans
Affairs Committee or It's Members
as the people you are complaining
against.

Click on any of the Categories
on this LINK list to see what
all of the Senate Rules on
the operation of Committees are:

http://rules.senate.gov/senaterules/

This last LINK is the list of
Rules which controls the overall
operation of the Senate Veterans
Affairs Committee and all other
Committees in the Senate. So
if you match up here, this is
where you would root your entire
complaint.

http://rules.senate.gov/senaterules/rule26.php



Good luck to all and get those
complaints a moving. Be brave.


Update Note: there seems to be not very
much continuity on information across
this office. Some staffers will try to
force you to file at the ETHICS Committee.
If you know for sure that you have a
RULES issue and want to argue it as
Rules, then dig in and insist that no
Ethics is not the place for your papers.
It depends on which staffer you get
down there, but I can say they are not
always right.

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