Senate.gov – U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, released the following statement after the testimony of Linda Halliday outlining many troubling issues at the Department of Veterans Affairs, including a high rate of errors in processing claims, as mentioned in an IG report released yesterday; work that does not fall under the VBA’s backlog statistic “increasing at alarming rates”; “notable weaknesses in financial stewardship”; and mismanagement at regional offices.
