Bill Passed to Allow Advance Funding for VA
AFGE Week In Review, July 7, 2009
The House June 23 voted 409-1 to pass an AFGE-backed bill that would allow two-year funding for the Veterans Affairs Department. The bill, H.R.1016, is aimed at ending chronic funding shortages that negatively affect veterans. In 19 of the past 22 years, Congress has failed to pass a VA spending bill before the start of the fiscal year. The bill is now headed to the Senate. On the same day, the House Appropriations Committee passed the 2010 VA spending bill to authorize two-year funding for VA.
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Cynthia Ennis
Cynthia Ennis has served as Executive Vice President of Local 1923 for over 20 years and was elected as President in August, 2003. Cynthia is fervently committed and dedicated to the labor movement.
In her position, Cynthia will move full speed ahead and address some of the serious challenges currently facing the federal workforce. Issues such as personnel reform, contracting out, pay parity, the stripping away of bargaining rights, and continually rising health insurance premiums are just to name a few. Cynthia intends on tackling these and many other issues in order to provide federal employees the rights they so richly deserve.