Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi piled on after veteran groups slammed retiring Republican Senator Tom Coburn for blocking a bill to reduce the epidemic of veteran suicides, which tragically takes the lives of 22 military veterans every day. Calling their deaths a tragedy, Pelosi blasted the Republican, “History will not remember kindly the man who spent his final days in the Senate denying our veterans the help they desperately need.” Pelosi lambasted Coburn for blocking the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act, bipartisan legislation introduced by Representative Timothy J. Walz (D-MN), which unanimously passed the House last week, and that takes some doing.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:29:31 +0000
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