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VFW Washington Weekly - December 19, 2008
Posted at 10:57 AM on Sunday, December 21, 2008 by VFW News
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE SERVICE1. VFW Calls for Veterans Corporation to Close
NATIONAL SECURITY & FOREIGN AFFAIRS
1. WWII MIA Identified
2. Vietnam MIAs Identified
3. Reserve Component Mobilization
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1. VA to Provide Payments to Eligible Surviving Spouses
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE SERVICE
1. VFW Calls for Veterans Corporation to Close: VFW Commander-in-Chief Glen Gardner is calling on Congress to stop appropriating federal funding for the Veterans Business Development Corporation, which is better known as The Veterans Corporation or TVC. Congress created TVC in 1999 to provide military veterans with the resources and guidance necessary to start small businesses, but an investigation report released last week by the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship revealed that TVC failed to establish and maintain veterans business resource centers, it didn't become self-sufficient as required, and the use of federal funding for executive compensation and questionable expenditures was deemed unacceptable. The Senate committee recommended that TVC no longer receive any federal funding for fiscal 2009 and beyond. The VFW national commander agrees, and now wants TVC's funding redirected to the Small Business administration to expand their veteran-specific programs. The Small Business Administration, unlike TVC, is subject to congressional oversight and accountability, and with 1,500 small business development centers nationwide is more capable of reaching out and working with veterans. "The Small Business Administration is the right place for Congress to fund and expand small business programs for veterans," said Gardner. "It has a proven track record and provides greater bang for the buck."
To read the Senate committee investigation report, go to:
http://sbc.senate.gov/Committee%20Report%20on%20TVC.pdf.
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