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VFW VA 2006 Election
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1. What is your position on establishing a budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs as a separate and independent budget from all other government budgets?

2. How would you ensure that the Department of Veterans Affairs receives sufficient funding to consistently provide for the Health Care and Benefits of our nations military and retirees?

3. Women are an important part of our military. What do you think should be the role of women serving in combat?

4. How would you ensure that Congress authorizes and fully funds legislation that allows all disabled military retirees (regardless of percentage of disability) to receive their full military retirement  pay and disability compensation without offset?

5. Our Active Duty, Reserves and National Guard are assigned to duties throughout the world.  Many units have been required to do multiple assignments in hazardous areas. What would you do to ease the current burdens on our troops?

6. Veteran's service organizations provide veterans, their dependents and survivors aid in the preparation and prosecution of claims for benefits free of charge. Few, if any, require the assistance of a lawyer. What is your position on permitting private for profit attorneys to practice at the initial claim level in the VA regional offices and be paid from the earned benefits of the men and women who served our country?

 

VFW AL
2006 Election
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These neutral, non-partisan, not-for-profit forums are part of  an ongoing effort to engage our membership, our deployed military community and our state's voters in the democratic process .

The Department of Alabama will be asking questions of the Candidates on behalf of our membership over the course of the 2006 Mid-Term Elections.
 
Candidates are asked to take the oppurtunity to personally reply via phone to the following questions.

1.  Do you favor full and mandatory funding of the VA Health Care System, and what actions do you plan to take if elected/reelected to make sure that full funding is available? 

2.  If elected/reelected will you work to enact a new GI Bill for the 21st Century that covers the full costs of tuition, fees, and living-costs for veterans?         

3.  What actions will you take to make sure that veterans' fees are not raised for use of the VA Health Care System, and that fees and deductible amounts in the TRICARE system for military retirees are not raised? 

4.  Do you favor ensuring that VA's disability compensation program is preserved in its present form to protect the needs of current and future veterans and will you work to make sure it is preserved if you are elected/reelected?      

5.  Do you favor ensuring that Congress enacts legislation that authorizes and fully funds legislation allowing all disabled military retirees to receive their full military retirement pay and full disability compensation without offset, and will you work for, and vote for such legislation?

• Candidates need never be in the same place at the same time to participate.
• Candidates will be provided with a phone number and personal access code.
• Candidates can record their responses from anywhere home, office, car, the campaign trail.
• Candidates will be provided 90 seconds for their responses.
• Candidates will have an oppurtunity to review and record their responses as many times as they wish.
• Candidates responses will be posted in the order they are received with no editing.
• Candidates content will be donated to the public domain through the Internet Archive after the Election.

For more information or to request your phone number and pin to participate, e-mail choicesofdemocracy@gmail.com or call (336) 273-4371

Thank you for your consideration and we look forward to your support.