This database sounds like a good thing for the American Public to keep tabs on "taxpayer" monies. Too bad our so-called "elected officials" don't want us to know where they are choosing for it to go. I don't think anyone reading this is surprised on this type of tactics.

Current money is on Ted Stevens from Alaska...someone known to seek revenge even years later.

Ted Stevens and Byrd are two of the biggest porkers in the Senate.
Maybe if it is called the Byrd Bill he would let it go through.

My money is on Ted "Bridge to Nowhere" Stevens holding it up because he'll be embarrassed if taxpayers knew about his next dumb money-blowing pork plan.

Typical politicians. They seem to forget who they work for. Have you ever wondered why someone would spend 10 million dollars of their own money to get elected to a job that pays 160k a year? It's because of all the power and prestige as well as the money. You know it used to be when you turned on the lights on in the kitchen the roaches would run and hide. Looks like the Politican roaches now have figured out how to keep the lights from being turned on. I say we fumigate them all out of Washington D.C.

According to Killfile on newsvine, Senator Ted Stevens is the senator with the hold.

Really like the database idea, ABC usually does an occasional segment on how are taxes are being wasted.
Since Senator Byrd, is the king of pork barrel, he's probably the mystery senator blocking the bill, with Ted Stevens second, he too has been on a roll spending our money on his pet projects.

It infuriates me that there is even such a thing as a secret hold in Congress. We have a right to know who is putting a hold on this bill.

can you say, "bridge to no where, Ted Stevens

Steve Ellis sounds like a smart guy. Too bad he's not a senator.

When I was a manager I would routinely reject any information provided to me by anonymous individuals because I realized that these people lacked a solid moral fiber, the courage of conviction, and most likely were ethically challenged. It appears there are some in the senate who also lacks these most revered of human qualities.

Ted Stevens the king S.O.B. of the US Senate. He will do absolutely anything that Big Oil and any of the other mega-corporations that support him ask - including pillaging the land of the people he claims to represent.

The people of the United States should work hard to get him and his robber-baron gang of big money crooks removed from office.

This bill helps everyone in the US in BOTH parties know where OUR taxpayer money is going. The republicans should be ashamed of Ted Stevens.

Aren't we lucky in Oklahoma to have a do-nothing senator like Coburn? He'll never try to bring Federal dollars to Oklahoma. Leaves more money for the rest of the 49 states.

Just another reason to oust the Republicans in November,, they never learn.

jfg

The only thing that works is revolution.

Until then we are just sheep.

Well looks like the cat or pig is out of the bag -- how long has this Stevens character been in congress -- I would hope his constitutents shape up before his next election. First the bridge to nowhere now this. Just absurd.

Of course Sen Stevens doesn't want this bill, isn't he part of the reason we're building a very expensive bridge for almost no one in Alaska?

If our elected officials want to hide the work they do, then they can elect somone else to take their place as representatives of their constituency.

It's ironic that it's a Rebublican trying to put a hold on this bill. I though this was supposed to be the party of fiscal responsibility. Looking at their recent track record maybe they should change their logo from the elephant to the pig. Rebulicans have become the party of pork.

As a 25-yr govt natural resources program manager, I think you guys cannot know half the earmarking that's been going on in Congress so those guys, e.g., ole Ted, ole Byrd, who help run this country, can keep their power and personal finances flush. Ted is the 2nd best to Sen Byrd of WV in wasting our tax dollars to benefit their own selfish interests. You would not believe the amount of $$ wasted each year with these "leaders'" pet projects. Google Sen Byrd to see some of his selfishness..

The American tax paying public should be up in arms against this, that is why our taxes are so high. We should vote the whole bunch of em out of office.

'seem to forget for whom they work'? They know. It's the voters in denial, or apathy.
How about voting yourself a 33%raise? See Michigan's state legislature in 2000. Outrage? Many of the incumbents were voted in again in 2004.
Voters have short memories, and are blinded by the theatrics of a two-party system that epitomizes good cop/bad cop psychology.
More than one politician has read Sun Tzu. Overt seizures of liberties can be seen by the most placid of sheep; gradual and constant degradation of liberties are more easily hidden.
Revolution? Don't count on it. I have quit debating politics with some contemporaries, as they are too comfortable being sheep.

If Stevens term is short, then the good people of the state of Alaska should vote him OUT.

If he has a longer term to serve, do a RECALL! It's worked before and it can work again. We, the People are our own best advocates and we must take back our country!

Well, I would hope that Coburn and the other interested Senators will make a few phone calls after petitioning Mr. Frist, so as to help fill up the "Roll Call" seats before they call for the vote to over-ride. Good Luck guys !! Hope the now out-of-the-bag Secret Hold is overridden.

Let me get this straight.

Senate Rules have never and currently do not provide for "Senate Holds".

The use of "Senate Holds" began back in the 101st Congress.

This practice began under the guise of protecting a Senator's right to be consulted on a piece of legislation.

"Senate Holds" are now placed in "Secret" behind closed doors.

The amendment proposed by Senators Wyden, Grassley, Inhofe, and Senator Salazar to the Senate Rule that doesn't exist is simply to ensure that the name of a Senator who exercises this extraordinary abuse of power must be recorded in the Congressional Record.

Senators for decades did not view the "Senate Hold" as a problem until the practice morphed from being a "Senate Hold" to a "Secret Hold" to a "Secret, Secret Hold."

So, it's okay to engage in a practice not permitted by Senate Rules so long as a Senator does so publicly rather than in secret behind closed doors? This then viewed by Senators as being accountable to the public they are elected to serve?????

You don't amend a Senate Rule that doesn't exist. You abolish the practice of engaging in conduct not permitted by Senate Rules!

My guess is the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act will not see the light of day until every member of Congress is footing the bill for the legal counsel they employ to assist them with perfecting the art of "wordsmithing" rather than American Taxpayers footing the bill for the legal counsel they employ to assist them with creating loopholes only meant to ensure that American Citizens are kept in the dark long enough, (decades in the instant case) to ensure an illegal practice simply becomes an illegal practice that needs to be amended.

American voters have been labeled as apathetic and in denial when the fact is, the media the American Public depends on to stay abreast of the job performance of their elected officials have been in the dark and have only recently begun to report on the abuses of power that have escalated to the point where everyone in America is being directly affected by legislation enacted in the name of "National Security," including Senators.

Sadly, it will take decades for America to become a democracy once again, rather than a country where the majority of elected officials and so called public servants are motivated and driven by PURE GREED!

__________________________
Wyden Statement
on the Wyden-Grassley-Inhofe-Salazar Amendment to End Secret Holds

March 29, 2006

Washington, DC – Unofficial transcript of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) statement follows:

MR. WYDEN: MR. PRESIDENT, I'M VERY HOPEFUL THAT SHORTLY THE SENATE WILL BE VOTING ON A MEASURE THAT I THINK WILL TAKE A VERY SIGNIFICANT STEP FORWARD BY BRINGING SUNSHINE AND PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE.

IF YOU WALK THE STREETS OF THIS COUNTRY AND ASKED SOMEBODY WHAT A HOLD WAS IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE, I DON'T THINK YOU'D GET ONE OUT OF 100 PEOPLE WHO WOULD HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT A HOLD HERE IN THE SENATE IS THE ABILITY TO BLOCK A PIECE OF LEGISLATION, BLOCK A NOMINATION, FROM BEING EVEN DISCUSSED ON THE FLOOR OF THIS BODY. AS A RESULT OF A HOLD, THE UNITED STATES SENATE WON'T EVEN GET A PEEK AT A TOPIC THAT MAY INVOLVE MILLIONS OF OUR CITIZENS, BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND EFFECT THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF CITIZENS IN EVERY CORNER OF THE LAND.

NOW, IT WOULD BE ONE THING IF THE UNITED STATES SENATOR WHO EXERCISES THIS EXTRAORDINARY TOOL, THIS TOOL THAT CARRIES SO MUCH POWER WITH IT, THAT SENATOR WOULD EXERCISE THE TOOL IN PUBLIC AND COULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. BUT UNFORTUNATELY HOLDS ARE NOW PLACED IN SECRET. THEY ARE DONE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. THE SPONSOR OF A PIECE OF LEGISLATION WON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT A SENATE THAT IS SERIOUS ABOUT LOBBYING REFORM ABSOLUTELY MUST STOP DOING SO MUCH OF ITS IMPORTANT BUSINESS IN SECRET BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. SO I WILL BE OFFERING LATER IN THE DAY, I HOPE, WITH SENATOR GRASSLEY AND SENATOR INHOFE AND SENATOR SALAZAR, AN AMENDMENT TO BRING A BIT OF SUNSHINE TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE.

IT'S AN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD NOT ABOLISH THE HOLD. A SENATOR'S RIGHTS WOULD BE FULLY PROTECTED. SENATOR COLLINS IS HERE ON THE FLOOR AND AS I RESULT OF THE COLLOQUY WE HAD A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, THIS LEGISLATION PROTECTS THE SENATOR'S RIGHT TO BE CONSULTED ON A PIECE OF LEGISLATION. CERTAINLY THAT'S SOMETHING EVERYONE IN THIS BODY WOULD FEEL IS IMPORTANT. BILLS THAT AFFECT A SENATOR'S STATE OR THAT THEY HAVE A GREAT INTEREST IN, THAT SENATOR WOULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY THE LEGISLATION AND REFLECT ON WHAT IT MEANS. BUT WHAT WE SAY IN THIS BIPARTISAN AMENDMENT IS WHEN A SENATOR DIGS IN, WHEN A SENATOR PLANS TO EXERCISE THIS EXTRAORDINARY POWER, THE POWER TO BLOCK A BILL OR NOMINATION FROM EVER BEING HEARD, WE'RE SAYING THAT SENATOR HAS GOT TO BE HELD PUBLICLY ACCOUNTABLE. AND SO WHAT WE WOULD REQUIRE IS THAT A SENATOR WHO EXERCISES A HOLD WHO HAVE TO SO STATE IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. THEY COULD STILL USE THEIR PROCEDURAL RIGHTS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WOULD HAVE A CHANCE TO OPPOSE THE LEGISLATION AND TO OPPOSE IT STRONGLY. BUT THEY WOULD BE IDENTIFIED AS THE PERSON WHO WAS SO OBJECTING.

NOW, THE INTELLIGENCE REAUTHORIZATION BILL, MR. PRESIDENT, IS NOW BEING PREVENTED FROM COMING TO THIS FLOOR AS A RESULT OF A SECRET HOLD. A LOT OF SENATORS GIVE LENGTHY AND ELOQUENT SPEECHES ABOUT FIGHTING TERRORISM BUT NOW A BILL THAT IS VITAL TO NATIONAL SECURITY IS BEING HELD UP IN SECRET. IT'S BEEN HELD UP FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS AS A RESULT OF A SECRET HOLD. THAT OUGHT TO CHANGE. AND IT CERTAINLY OUGHT TO CHANGE IF SENATORS ARE SERIOUS ABOUT LOBBYING REFORM. BECAUSE ONE OF THE BEST WAYS FOR LOBBYISTS TO WORK THEIR WILL IS TO HAVE PROCEDURES THAT HELP THEM BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. THAT'S WHAT THE SECRET HOLD IS ALL ABOUT. IT'S WRITTEN NOWHERE IN THE SENATE RULES BUT IT HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND POWERFUL TOOLS A SENATOR CAN EXERCISE AND IT'S DONE WITHOUT ANY PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY AT ALL.

THERE'S BEEN A BIT OF IRONY IN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS ABOUT THIS LEGISLATION, MR. PRESIDENT. I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO COME UP ALREADY, GIVEN THE FACT THAT WE HAD COME BACK FROM THE RECESS AND I WAS THE UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS. WE COULDN'T GET TO THE BIPARTISAN MEASURE TO ABOLISH SECRET HOLDS BECAUSE LOW AND BEHOLD THERE WAS A SECRET HOLD ON AN AMENDMENT TO TRY TO GET THE SENATE DO ITS BUSINESS IN PUBLIC.

I THINK THAT PRETTY MUCH SAYS IT ALL. NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE SECRET HOLDS ON NATIONAL SECURITY LEGISLATION, LEGISLATION THAT, WOULD MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN TERMS OF STRIKING A BALANCE BETWEEN FIGHTING TERRORISM FEROCIOUSLY AND PROTECTING CIVIL LIBERTIES. NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE NATIONAL SECURITY LEGISLATION BEING HELD UP, BUT EVEN EFFORTS TO BRING ABOUT BASIC REFORMS LIKE OPENNESS AND SUNSHINE FOR THE SENATE ARE BEING HELD UP AS A RESULT OF THIS SECRET PROCEDURE.

I WANT TO EMPHASIZE WHAT THE CHANGE WILL MEAN FOR THE SENATE. NO LONGER IF THIS CHANGE IS PUT IN PLACE WILL STAFF BE ABLE TO KEEP SECRET FROM MEMBERS AN OBJECTION. NO LONGER WILL LEADERSHIP BE THE ONLY ONES TO KNOW ABOUT AN OBJECTION. NO LONGER WILL IT BE POSSIBLE FOR A SENATOR TO BE KEPT IN THE DARK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT THEY HAVE WORKED ON FOR YEARS AND YEARS. AND THE FACT IS SENATOR GRASSLEY AND I HAVE WORKED ON THIS LEGISLATION FOR A FULL DECADE.

SENATOR LOTT, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE RULES COMMITTEE, HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY HELPFUL IN TERMS OF WORKING WITH US ON THIS
MEASURE. THERE HAVE BEEN HEARINGS ON THIS. SENATOR BYRD, WHO, OF COURSE, KNOWS MORE ABOUT THE SENATE RULES THAN ANYONE IN THE HISTORY OF THIS BODY HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL IN TERMS OF GIVING US BACKGROUND ABOUT WHAT WE OUGHT TO DO. I BELIEVE THIS AMENDMENT PUTS THE BURDEN ON THE PERSON WHO OUGHT TO BE HELD PUBLICLY ACCOUNTABLE. SQUARELY ON THE SHOULDERS OF AN OBJECTOR, THE PERSON WHO EXERCISES A HOLD WILL BE IDENTIFIED AND COLLEAGUES CAN DISCUSS WITH THAT PERSON HOW TO MOVE FORWARD IN A BIPARTISAN WAY.

NO SENATOR IS GOING TO BE STRIPPED OF THEIR RIGHTS. NO SENATOR IS GOING TO BE KEPT FROM PROTECTING CONSTITUENTS THAT HAVE SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT LEGISLATION, BUT WITH THE RIGHT TO STAND UP FOR YOUR VIEWS AND TO OBJECT TO A PIECE OF LEGISLATION, I BELIEVE THERE OUGHT TO BE SOME RESPONSIBILITY. I BELIEVE THERE OUGHT TO BE SOME ACCOUNTABILITY. AND I FIND IT STUNNING THAT THE SENATE WOULD EVEN CONSIDER LOBBYING REFORM WITHOUT AN EFFORT TO DO ITS BUSINESS IN PUBLIC.

WE'VE ALREADY SPENT SEVERAL DAYS ON THIS BILL LEGISLATION. HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE COMPLETED SHORTLY BUT IT SEEMS TO ME ONE OF THE MOST OBVIOUS REFORMS THAT SENATORS OUGHT TO BE IN FAVOR OF IF THIS BODY IS SERIOUS ABOUT REFORM IS DOING ITS BUSINESS IN PUBLIC.

NOW, NOWHERE IN THE SENATE RULES DOES IT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT SECRET HOLDS. NOWHERE IS IT WRITTEN DOWN THAT A SENATOR CAN EXERCISE THIS ENORMOUS POWER AND DO IT WITHOUT ANY ACCOUNTABILITY AT ALL. AND SENATOR GRASSLEY AND I BELIEVE IT'S TIME TO BRING SOME SUNSHINE TO THE SENATE AND FOR SENATORS TO DO THE PEOPLES BUSINESS IN PUBLIC.

SECRET HOLDS HAVE BEEN THE BANE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE FOR DECADES. BACK IN THE 101ST CONGRESS, THEN MAJORITY LEADER BOB DOLE SAID, AND I QUOTE "I HAVE NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY REPUBLICANS PUT A HOLD ON REPUBLICAN NOMINEES.
MAYBE I WILL FIGURE IT OUT SOME DAY. I'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT. I HAVEN'T QUITE UNDERSTOOD IT." IN THAT SAME CONGRESS FORMER SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID AND I QUOTE "ONE HOLD COMES OFF ANOTHER HOLD WOULD BE PUT ON SO THAT NO ONE REALLY HAD TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES. THE OBJECTING SENATOR WOULD REMAIN ANONYMOUS. SO MUCH FOR SUNSHINE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE." THE WORDS OF JOHN GLENN, MR. PRESIDENT, ARE WORDS I HOPE SENATORS WILL REMEMBER LATER IN THE DAY WHEN I BELIEVE WE'LL HAVE A CHANCE TO VOTE ON A BIPARTISAN AMENDMENT TO BRING SOME SUNLIGHT TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE AND SOME OPENNESS IN THE WAY THE SENATE CONDUCTS THE PUBLIC'S BUSINESS.

WHEN WE HAVE IMPORTANT NATIONAL SECURITY LEGISLATION HELD HOSTAGE TODAY BY A SECRET HOLD I THINK THAT ALONE SAYS THAT THIS BODY NEEDS TO CHANGE THE WAY IT DOES BUSINESS. IT OUGHT TO DO ITS BUSINESS IN THE OPEN. IT OUGHT TO DO ITS BUSINESS IN A WAY THAT WILL HOLD SENATORS ACCOUNTABLE. AFTER TEN YEARS, SENATOR GRASSLEY AND I HAVE WATCHED THESE SECRET HOLDS BLOCK LEGISLATION, BLOCK NOMINATIONS IN A WAY THAT DOES A DISSERVICE TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WE REPRESENT. MR. PRESIDENT, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CHANCE TO END THIS. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CHANCE TO ENSURE THAT WHILE SENATORS CAN EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS AND DEBATE TOPICS THAT THEY FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT, THEY CAN ALSO BE HELD PUBLICLY ACCOUNTABLE.

MR. PRESIDENT, I YIELD THE FLOOR AND RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. MR. PRESIDENT, I'D NOTE THE ABSENCE OF A QUORUM.

People only complain about the pork that other states get.

They don't complain about the pork their own state gets (that's the good pork).

For their own selfish "porked" interests, they will continue to reelect someone specifically because, the longer that congress-person is in office, the more powerful committe seats he/she will hold, the better cut-of-pork they can send home.

You won't consider a person who doesn't belong to any of the two favorite food groups -- because they have no power.

Look in the mirror. There is where the fault "lies".

HOLD CONGRESS ACCOUNTABLE FOR: “THE COURT MAY NOT” HELP VETERANS!
9/6/06 SUMMARY.
In 2006 the “UNDERLYING” “DESIGNED TO HARM” experiment’s unique “DISABILITIES” are not in the “SCHEDULE" or in their subject’s needed for treatment records! The U.S. Senate’s 12/8/94 Report “Lessons Spanning Half a Century" lists many Dept. of Defense (DOD) experiments.[9] Documented are 50 years of human “EXPERIMENTS THAT WERE DESIGNED TO HARM” of 1940's mustard gas & lewisite, 1945-1962 radiation exposures, a not Report recorded 1952-1956 jet-engine experiment. The U.S. Supreme Court STANLEY 1958 drug [5] 1950's-1970's bacteria and viruses injury trials! Following past practice they continue under the cover of our nation’s wars. This is proven by the Report’s in-the-record evidence with the DOD and Dept. Of Veterans Affairs’s (VA) now ongoing 62 years of withheld medical and R&D records. The U.S. Judicial Branch’s final authority on questions of law is Given to the Secretary of the VA; 511(a)![6]&[10] A final decision authority with NO APPEAL on experiment alerting issues. On those that can be appealed there is the Veterans Chief Judge’s, "THE COURT MAY NOT REVIEW THE SCHEDULE OF RATINGS FOR DISABILITIES OR THE POLICIES UNDERLYING THE SCHEDULE"![8] By a 1953 Order Disobeyed Withheld From U.S. Veterans and Military Personnel Are an Ongoing 53 Years of Experimentation “To Harm” Protection Rights.[3] Lost Are Those Before Service Rights That All Other U.S. Citizens Including Rapists and Murderers Keep.[7] Accomplished By the Order Disobeyed [3] the VA Final Authority on Questions of Law [10] the 1988 “MAY NOT REVIEW” Veterans’ Judicial Review Act (VJRA) [6] and the ignored 1994 VJRA corrections [9]. PLEASE VOTE THE U.S. CONGRESS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THESE DELIBERATE “DESIGNED TO HARM” ACTS. In particular, your members on the U.S. Senate and House Judicial, Veterans and Armed Services Committees!
1. The Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135, 146 (1950) case treats these experiments as an “INCIDENT TO SERVICE”![1]
2. On 26 Feb. 1953 the Secretary of the DOD Ordered [3] the Disobeyed 1994 Confirmed [9] No Non-consensual, Human Experiments.
3. The U.S. Supreme Court 25 June 1987 STANLEY is the U.S. Congress is responsible for these experiments.[5]
4. The 8 December 1988 Veterans’ Judicial Review Act is the response by a few in the U.S. Congress.[6]
5. The 8 December 1994 U.S. Senate attempted VJRA to-date revision rejected![9]
Harmfully withheld from the generally accepted medical community and from the victim throughout this VA “disabilities” procedure is the KEY evidence. This is the DOD’s AT-THE-TIME Research and Development (R&D) protocol recording of each experiment’s revealing “designed” how, when, where Causes with the resulting “to harm” medical Effects (C&E)!! They determine the then developed protection from “harm”. Withheld are each separate service’s scheduled and conducted “designed to harm” C&E, including any vendor’s supporting records. Also withheld are the overall military services protection from “to harm” with its C&E that are coordinated and recorded by the DOD’s R&D Board and its successors.[3] To-date not available is this Report confirming in the DOD record“policies” identifying evidence. Even after this 1994 alert a now 12 more years from the 50 years of experiment omitted C&E!! Prevented is any group’s 62 years of lessons learned. Prevented is each subject’s experiment specific in & after service diagnostic disability evaluation and follow-up treatment. The victim never the wiser becomes!
The 1973 National Personnel Records Center fire destroyed most of the past subject’s service documents. Congress’s 1974 Privacy Act censored the names of all witnesses from surviving and future records. A December 8, 1994 U.S. Senate response [9] to the 8 December 1988 VJRA [6] is a still not realized: 1. Accountability for the DOD now MANY order disobeyed HARM EXPERIMENTS! And 2. That the injured subjects be allowed an unrestricted Judicial Branch redress, e.g., NOT be stopped as an "INCIDENT TO SERVICE" [1]. Reported is that these subjects are DOD prevented from recognizing that the experiment establishing "TO HARM" is "associated with their military service". As after service to-date duplicated through the VA by its final decision authority and the VJRA’s “may not review” of this R&D with its resulting C&E evidence. There will be no repeating of the STANLEY are you OK follow-up. Then identified was this 1958 experiment. There will be no STANLEY to the U.S. Supreme Court bypassing of the VA’s "disabilities" process. "THE COURT” that “MAY NOT” is a for Veterans only severely restricted Article I U.S. NOT Judicial Branch Court. This is its 1994 Chief Judge’s no teeth“Judicial Review” statement.[8] It is a few in Congress’s VJRA creation.[6] During the VA “disabilities” process there is NO access to a MAY REVIEW unrestricted Judicial Branch. And by the VA final decision, appeal denied! Captured is every “TO HARM" subject. All within a 15 to 20+ years of a “may not” must be completed greatly VJRA extended no experiment appeal procedure. In 2006 there is no accountability for these order disobeyed "designed to harm" acts! And the destroyed, censored and withheld in-the-record verifying evidence. A justice denied for the greater good end justifies the means! Thereby approved is the use of our children and grandchildren as PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE in-service guinea pigs.
With the help of many USAF, VA, National Veteran Service Organizations (NVSO) and Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) personnel an example of how Congress’s few no accountability is implemented is well documented. This is by a without end in sight of a VA ongoing 15 years from 1991 of a from 1957, 49 year negation of a jet-engine 1952-1956 experiment cause. Conducted in direct disobedience of the DOD Secretary’s 1953 order![3] A multiple trials in-the-record then 1952 known F86-D’s, J47 jet-engine certain “to harm” unprotected 87,381X (158dB.) to 699,051X (176dB.) sound pressure injury.[2] Such exposure resulted in an 8 day from 5/27/53 sick & dizzy records. On the 6/25/56 Separation from Service recorded as a “4 DAY COLD” hospitalization. Developed was a version of “harm” protection then in use! The USAF Physician's 1/29/54 Cadet Wing Commander washout exam’s cause of, "Had some trouble with hearing while working on warm-up crew for F86-D with very high noise levels." The physician’s 7/29/54 get him off the flight line memo! Then the year later also ignored physician’s 7/21/55 do not expose to “loud acoustic trauma”. Confirming many prior in-service and subsequent physician’s diagnosis on 9/15/99 a VA ENT Chief stated that the “SCHEDULE” omitted medically known since 1861 “symptoms of menieres disease clearly are documented in his service record”, i.e., its hearing loss + tinnitus + vertigo + et. al.[4] Which “disabilities or the policies underlying” "may not" be Court reviewed. The total Cause & Effects (C&E) are in the VA 5/7/57 requested and stamped 6/3/57 received, 6/26/52 to 6/25/56 original service records.[4] A VA physician’s 6/26/57 initial disability exam & service based determinations were laymen rejected. This is the local Regional VA Rating Board’s 7/9/57 diverting award of only one of the “CLEARLY ARE DOCUMENTED” in-the-record Menieres disease symptoms (known since 1861) of its hearing loss.[4] Then this same C&E evidence sent 4/3/58 directly by the 6/26/57 VA physician with its resulting VA received to-date also ignored extent of injury, i.e., by the USAF SURGEON HQ AARC, 25 June 1958 "PERMANENTLY” “MEDICALLY DISQUALIFIED FOR MILITARY SERVICE". Followed by the very effective disingenuous 22 January 1959 “HONORABLE DISCHARGE” with “RECOMMENDED FOR REENLISTMENT - YES”! A 10/5/94 VA Criminal Investigator noted these records as misplaced. On 8/1/05 VA rediscovered 49 years later. From 1991 over 30 times the veteran’s 6/25/56 retained service records have been submitted, with requests to address these issues and administratively ignored.[4] FORTY NINE (49) years later still not VA officially recognized and responded to are their 6/3/57 received and veteran submitted complete in all respects facts of record.
Note that this vote responsible message is Internet Servers by content & IP address Blacklisted. Please pass it on to others. Thank you.REFERENCES:
[1] Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135, 146 (1950).
[2] Conducted in 1952 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) DAYTON, OHIO. Then recorded sound pressure levels for all jet-engines in-service. 1954 logged in as the 401st report for that year published as REPORT 54-401 July 1956. USAF PROJECT 7210 "A COMPILATION OF TURBOJET NOISE DATA", BOLT BERANEK & NEWMAN, INC. CAMBRIDGE 38, MA.
[3] DOD Secretary’s 26 February 1953 NO non-consensual, human experiments Memo pgs. 343-345. George J. Annas and Michael A. Grodin, The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code; Human Rights in Human Experimentation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
[4] 1952-1956 MEDICAL DOCUMENTS. The veteran’s 25 June 1956 retained include 40 sets of USAF 1952-1956 service records with 11 medical exams and the names with the serial numbers of 78 injured personnel. The Boston, MA. VA Regional Office 6/26/57 Physician’s directly submitted resulting VA received to-date ignored USAF SURGEON HQ AARC, 25 June 1958 "PERMANENTLY” “MEDICALLY DISQUALIFIED FOR MILITARY SERVICE"! The 1/22/59 “RECOMMENDED FOR REENLISTMENT - YES”. And the 9/15/99 VA ENT Chief’s stated “SYMPTOMS OF MENIERES DISEASE CLEARLY ARE DOCUMENTED IN HIS SERVICE RECORD.”
[5] U.S. SUPREME COURT, JUNE 25, 1987, U.S. V. STANLEY, 107 S. CT. 3054 (483 U.S. SECT. 669). It addresses the ‘congress is responsible’ for the issue of a 1958 DoD non-consensual, human drug trials and other experimentations.
[6] 8 December 1988. Veterans’ Judicial Review Act, Pub. L. No. 100-687, Div. A, 102 Stat. 4105 (1988) (VJRA)
[7] U.S. State Department, "U.S. Report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights July 1994, Article 7".
[8] 17 & 18 October 1994. Chief Judge and Colleague Statements, Court of Veterans Appeals, Annual Judicial Conference, Fort Meyer, Va.
[9] December 8, 1994 REPORT 103-97 "Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans’ Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century." Hearings Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, 103rd Congress 2nd Session.
[10] "United States Code (USC) Title 38, 511. Decisions of the Secretary; finality."