Jeff Miller

• VA’s impending shutdown to impact nearly all of its hospitals

  The Department of Veterans Affairs will have to shutter some facilities beginning in August if Congress does not approve an emergency reallocation of funds, officials said Wednesday. Congressional overseers are displeased, saying they were blindsided by VA’s budget emergency.

  Management

  July 23, 2015
• Bill to make it easier to fire VA employees advances in House

  VA Accountability Act of 2015, would extend the probationary period for new employees to at least 18 months from the current 12. All employees would have a shorter window in which to appeal their firing or demotion.

  Congress

  July 15, 2015
• No short-term fix to VA scandal, says committee chairman

  Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Committee on Veterans\' Affairs says problems engulfing the Department of Veterans Affairs will outlive his tenure, but laying the groundwork for change is a job he\'s looking to take on with Secretary Bob McDonald.

  Congress

  June 11, 2015
• Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), Chairman, House Veterans Affairs Committee

  The Department of Veterans Affairs is proposing a plan to pay for the hospital project in Denver that\'s over its original budget now by more than $1 billion. The Denver hospital problem is one of several the agency struggles with. Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, tells In Depth with Francis Rose what the string of problems says about the direction of the agency.

  All News

  June 09, 2015
• House vets chairman: VA impeding congressional oversight

  The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee on Monday accused the inspector general and other officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs of withholding reports from his panel, despite pledges to be transparent.

  Congress

  March 16, 2015
• What happens when the Treasury IG disputes findings of a VA IG report?

  The Treasury Department's inspector general reviewed a recent Veterans Affairs IG report and concluded the actions of a former VA acquisitions official "did not violate applicable law."

  Defense

  March 16, 2015
• Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), Chairman, House Veterans Affairs Committee

  Bonuses went to some employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs who later got caught up in the wait time scandal, and other incidents at the agency. The congressman who sponsored the bill that makes it easier to fire SESers at VA wants to go after those bonuses now. Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) is chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he said seeing results from the VA Management Accountability Act of 2014 (the firing bill that President Barack Obama signed late last year) won't happen overnight.

  All News

  January 28, 2015
• House bill would reduce SES pensions at VA

  House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller wants new ways to punish SES members accused of misconduct, including possible pension reductions, limits on paid leave. He also wants to curtail VA's bonus award system.

  Congress

  January 23, 2015
• House lawmakers call for OFPP to issue reverse auction guidance

  Reps. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) and Sam Graves (R-Mo.), chairmen of the Veterans Affairs and Small Business committees, respectively, wrote to Anne Rung, OFPP administrator, saying agencies still are "misusing" reverse auctions to "evade competition and compliance with other procurement regulations."

  Congress

  December 17, 2014
• VA fires Pittsburgh hospital network’s director

  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The director of the Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Healthcare System has been fired. The move comes a month after officials determined that she had committed “conduct unbecoming a senior executive,” along with wasteful…

  Congress

  November 13, 2014
• VA begins process to remove executive at center of FedBid scandal

  Sloan Gibson, VA's deputy secretary, said he's proposed the removal of Susan Taylor, the deputy chief procurement officer at the Veterans Health Administration. Gibson will use the new authorities provided by Congress and President Barack Obama in August under the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014.

  Congress

  October 06, 2014
• VA defends ‘outlandish’ performance rating, bonus systems

  Despite reports of delayed patient treatments, falsified records and preventable veteran deaths, the Department of Veterans Affairs said all of its 470 senior executives have been rated "successful" over the past four fiscal years. The ratings have sparked outrage among members of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, whose chairman called the performance rating and bonus system at the VA "outlandish."

  Congress

  June 20, 2014
• Shinseki ‘mad as hell’ over veteran deaths, delayed treatment, but won’t resign

  The VA secretary promised the Senate Thursday that he will impose accountability for extended hospital wait times that may have led to veteran deaths, but not until investigations have run their course.

  Congress

  May 16, 2014
• House passes bill banning SES bonuses at the VA

  The House passed the GI Tuition Fairness Act of 2013 on Wednesday that includes an amendment to stop all bonuses for senior executives at the VA for five years. The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee says it will instill some much-needed accountability to the department.

  Congress

  May 01, 2014