Submitted information<\/i><\/p>\n
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following Tuesday\u2019s veterans town hall meetings in Perrysburg, Findlay and Defiance, U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Ohio) on Friday sent a letter to House Veteran\u2019s Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller (R-Florida) and Ranking Member Michael Michaud (D-Maine), sharing the issues northwest Ohio veterans have had when navigating the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter hearing from Ohio\u2019s Fifth Congressional District veterans and reading the OIG preliminary report, it is evident that the issues within the VA are systemic,\u201d said Latta. \u201cThe VA\u2019s actions are horrific and those responsible must be held accountable.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile Secretary Shinseki\u2019s resignation is a good first step, it will not solve the problems that clearly permeate the VA,\u201d Latta added. \u201cAs a nation, we owe our veterans the highest quality care, and it is incumbent on the President, as this is his department, to take responsibility for the actions that have occurred and hold those accountable.<\/p>\n
Latta also noted that \u201cthe care of our veterans is neither partisan nor political. Both Republicans and Democrats have attempted to get answers from the VA through numerous Congressional hearings, at which the Department has not been forthright and at times even misleading in its answers. Therefore, while we will continue to conduct rigorous oversight over the VA, it must also be truthful about the conditions at the Department, so we can implement needed reforms to eliminate this unacceptable culture of mistruths and complacency.\u201d<\/p>\n
Latta also encouraged veterans to continue to contact him regarding issues with the VA.\u00a0\u201cWhat happened is absolutely unacceptable, and we will get to the bottom of this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
A copy of Latta\u2019s letter to Chairman Miller and Ranking Member Michaud can be found here<\/b><\/a>.\u00a0A copy of the VA OIG report can be found here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following Tuesday\u2019s veterans town hall meetings in Perrysburg, Findlay and Defiance, U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Ohio) on Friday sent a letter to House Veteran\u2019s Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller (R-Florida) and Ranking Member Michael Michaud (D-Maine), sharing the issues northwest Ohio veterans have had when navigating the Department of Veterans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 18:02:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}