Patriot Publishings

Currently we are in the 118th Congress/Senate. This Congress ran/runs from January 1st, 2023 to December 31st, 2024 (2 years). This is important to understand because each bill must proceed through the process effectively, to be voted into law (eventually). If there’s an issue in House/Senate, it gets kicked back to the originating level and starts all over again.

To make it clearer: if a bill starts in the House and gets voted through, it must get passed up to the Senate to also pass. If there’s a change, or something is wrong, it gets dropped back to the House of Representatives and has to go through the process again. This is a way to appear as if these politicians are ‘working’ in D.C. for us.

How to tell one thing from another? Well, if you are looking at House Veteran Bills (from the VA Committee) and you then look through the Senate VA Committee bills and happen across a bill(s) that have the same subject/title, then that should alert you to one of the tactics. This tactic is for someone in the House to propose (example) H.R. 1111111 More Money for Veterans, but in the Senate, a member proposed S. 22222 More Money for Veterans. If the House bill hiccups, the Senate bill proceeds.

That is but one of the tactics they push. DO these politicians do this for lifesaving bills? You be the judge. All I can do is warn the viewer that they will not enjoy what they find out.

Now, onto a snippet from the 118th Congressional Committee on Veterans’ Affairs:

Currently there are 404 bills proposed in the Committee. So far, 6 bills have advanced into laws:
H.R. 3746 Fiscal responsibility Act of 2023 (Proposed by McHenry R-NC)
H.R. 3672 Naming a clinic in Indian River, MI (proposed by Bergman R-MI)
H.R. 1226 Wounded Warrior Access Act (Proposed by Aguilar D-CA)
H.R. 815 Making emergency supplemental appropriations for FY2024 (proposed by McMorris R-WA)
H.R. 593 naming clinic in Hinesville, GA (proposed by Carter R-GA)
HR 366 Korean American Valor Act (proposed by Takano D-CA)

This Congress/Senate has 6 more months before it concludes. I will warn anyone that truly wants to track on these bills to pay close attention to the amount of bills that get proposed in the latter half of this Congress/Senate and what happens to those bills. In my research, there are entirely too many politicians who have a habit of proposing bills in the last half of the Congress and do nothing with them. They repeat this Congress/Senate after Congress/Senate.

Now, with the current 404 bills, 302 bills have had their titles changed. Why is that? Depends on who you ask. When 74% of the bills change titles through the past 18 months, someone should pay attention and ask the hard questions…such as ‘WHY’.

If these politicians understood that there are people actually tracking these bills, their movements and the patterns that emerge year after year, perhaps they would act ethically? Perhaps, but not likely.

If anyone wanted a quick reality check on our current leadership in D.C., then a search for net worth of each congressman/woman/senate member, should opens some eyes. It is sad that ‘being awake’ needs to be a request, however, especially for those in the veteran community, we have been asleep for far too long and progress will NEVER occur as long as we sit idly by and do nothing (by sitting by I mean actually trust our elected officials to do what they promise without backing down).

The sad reality is that I wouldn’t need to write this book if our ‘world’ was ethical, and people did the right thing.