Buerkle's Congressional Committee Assignments: What Happened to All That Health Care Experience that Boehner Was So Hot About Back In August?

Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle will be serving on three committees: 

• Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,
• Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

Recently famous for calling President Obama's administration the most corrupt in years, Darrell Issa, R-CA, is the new chair of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He is from the 49th district of California.
He has since waffled on the corruption charges. His own criminal record will be harder to pull back from.  If you care to look, let Google help you.
Buerkle met with Issa sometime in the past couple days and was given her marching orders. Good tea soldier.



Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-FL, was born in Cuba in 1952 and represents the 18th Congressional District of Florida. She is the new chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
 She is still beating the "opposition to Castro's dictatorial regime in Cuba" drum, apparently a no-brainer in red-district Miami-Dade. 



Congressman Jeff Miller, R-FL, represents the 1st Congressional District of Florida, the Florida Panhandle. He is new chair of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Ann Marie joins this committee along with 5 other new Republican Congressmen, all from northern states plus Kansas and California.


One hopes that some of AMB's health care experience will be of use on Veterans' Affairs. Lord knows our Veterans need as much help as this country can muster, and more. 


My hope is that expanded health care help for public servants comes easier in the future than it did for the just ended Congressional session, the Republicans of which refused right up to the last minute to give extended health coverage to 911 First Responders.  That was a fight for years as the Republicans finely tuned their proud tradition of hypocrisy.