(Long Island, NY) Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1), member of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, released a statement in response to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) decision to block the removal of Albany Stratton VA Medical Center Director, Linda Weiss. Congressman Zeldin released the following statement:
“Our veterans deserve the highest quality of care. Poor performing employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, especially upper management, must be removed. Reforming our VA system and ensuring accountability is essential to protecting our veterans, and improving their quality of life and care. While I believe that 99% of VA employees genuinely care about the work they do and want to help veterans, we must ensure that the other 1% of those employees who are not acting in the best interest of veterans are held accountable. The VA must have the necessary resources and flexibility to hold poor performing employees accountable. Not only are the misdoings within the VA hurting our veterans, but tax dollars have been blindly misspent due to the lack of accountability. When it comes to our veterans, there is so much more we can do to improve their quality of life and care, and it starts with VA accountability.”
