Senator Barack Obama (D-ILL), a member of the Senate VA Committee, was alarmed by the report and the VA's response to it. "It doesn't appear that the VA is willing to come out and say: "We messed up and this needs to be fixed." I suspect that's because they are trying to protect the president and his budget, which is probably inadequate to solve these problems," Obama said. Download complete story with access link to full report and VA's response to report and recommendations, in PDF format.
