Issue Position: Fighting for Veterans

Issue Position

Veterans have no greater fighter in Congress than Martha Roby. She has consistently voted to support veterans and make sure they receive the care and benefits they were promised.

When the VA scandal hit Central Alabama, Martha worked with courageous whistleblowers and the media to expose major instances of corruption and malfeasance within the system, such as:

Manipulation of veteran patient scheduling data was pervasive, as a national-high of more than 57 percent of employees reported that managers instructed them to change appointment times to artificially hide chronically long waits.
More than 1000 patient X-Rays, some showing malignancies, went missing for months and years.
A pulmonologist was caught twice falsifying more than 1200 patient records, but somehow given a satisfactory review.
An employee took a recovering veteran to a crack house, bought him drugs and paid for prostitutes all to extort his benefits. When caught, the employee wasn't fired - not until a year and half later when we exposed it publicly.

Martha's efforts led to the Central Alabama VA director being fired, the first VA employee terminated under a new VA accountability law.

Her efforts earned her the "Minuteman of the Year" Award from the Alabama Reserve Officer's Association at the National Veterans Day celebration in Birmingham.

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