Corrine Brown Quotes
Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.
United States, Congress, House. Representative Brown speaking on Veterans Affairs Funding. Congressional Record, Government Printing Office, 15 Feb. 2005.
The performance of a number of Veterans Administrations hospitals and health facilities had been terrible and the some VA official had lied about the VA performance making it seem as though the performance was not as bad as it was in reality. There were some calls for the elimination of the VA hospitals and replacing them with vouchers. This was the official American Legion Response to a Conservative Congressional proposal to replace the Veterans Administration hospitals with vouchers whereby veterans would go to private physicians for their health care instead of VA facilities. Generally, the American Legion was quite conservative politically and in support of most Republican proposals, but this went too far.
Veterans of WWI had been authorized a bonus by Congress, and had been issued certificates, but Congress had not appropriated the money to redeem the certificates. Veterans of World War I formed a “Bonus Army,” some twenty thousand unemployed veterans and a like number of family members arrived in Washington DC with their hurting families and sett up a shantytown across the river from Capitol Hill. They demanded of Congress their bonus pay. Instead President Hoover castigated them and authorized the U. S. Army to disperse the veterans. General Douglas MacArthur commanded the troops and in one of the great disgraces of the United States, he used excessive force, MacArthur attacked women and children with infantry, cavalry and tanks. Governor Bartlett was in Washington at the time and became an eye witness in an era where there was no television.
Corrine Brown is an American former politician and convicted felon, who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida from 1993 to 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party. After a court-ordered redistricting significantly changed her district, and a federal indictment for corruption, Brown was defeated in the 2016 Democratic primary by Al Lawson, who went on to win Brown's former seat.
