House Committee on Veterans' Affairs

Uh, they're a GS-15 IT guy, uh, there's, uh, the nurse at the DC, uh, VA Medical Center, and a whole cast of characters that, uh, comprise the ecosystem that we live in here in the Washington DC area.

So it's got a, uh, a congressional Hill staffer that is part of the House Veteran Affairs Committee.

It's got a, a journalist like Amy, uh, only, you know, a print journalist who, who wants to be on TV one day, and so forth and so on.

So it has all the characters that we... and the pressures that they have on being a successful organization in the federal market here in the DC area.

That's the one.

It was reported out of the Veterans Affairs Committee with an amendment.

OK.

And what is the structural funding look like for that?

Nice.

And then you serve on the, the Veterans' Affairs Committee, right, in the House.

Yes.

And so I imagine that, that, bringing that experience has been pretty, uh, pretty important.

She openly protested the assignment, and her persistence paid off.

She was reassigned to the Veterans Affairs Committee, famously remarking that, But Chisholm wasn't done yet.

In January of 1972, she announced that she was running for the Democratic nomination for the presidency at Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York.

In her announcement, she stated, quote,

Why does she not confront this? As Trump builds this huge observation tower desecrating the serenity of Arlington Cemetery, veterans groups are outraged.

As a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee, does she not stand with them? Does she not know of the ugly impact that such a tower had at Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania? These are just starters.

Representative Miller-Meeks has hitched her wagon to bad policy and wants to change the subject.

Do not let her.