What
Thom’s
Been
Up
To:
Fighting To
Repeal
Obamacare
Congress
began
2016
by
passing The
Restoring
Americans’
Healthcare
Freedom
Reconciliation
Act,
which
would
have
repealed
Obamacare
and
cut
the
federal
deficit
by
half
a
trillion
dollars
over
the
next
decade
according
to
the
Congressional
Budget
Office.
When
Thom
was
elected,
he
promised
the
people
of
North
Carolina
that
if
he
were
elected,
he
would
work
toward
repealing
and
replacing
Obamacare. Watch
local
coverage
of
Thom's
efforts
to
repeal
Obamacare
below.
Visiting
Ft.
Bragg
And
Supporting
Our
Men
and
Women
in
Uniform
Thom
spent
the
first
week
of
January
visiting
Fort
Bragg
with
Senator Joni
Ernst
(R-IA).
Both
members
of
the
Senate
Armed
Services
Committee,
they
met
with
many
key
military
commanders
at
Ft.
Bragg,
shared
breakfast
with
Army
soldiers
from
their
home
states,
toured
the
United
States
Army
Special
Operations
Command
(USASOC),
and
went
on
an
extensive
tour
of
the
Joint
Special
Operations
Medical
Training
Center
(JSOMTC). In
addition
to
the
busy
itinerary
of
the
CODEL
at
Fort
Bragg,
Senator
Tillis
joined
Senators
Richard
Burr
and
Senate
Veterans’
Affairs
Committee
Chairman
Johnny
Isakson
(R-GA)
for
the
official
opening
of
the
new
Fayetteville
VA
Health
Care
Center.
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"Sen.
Thom
Tillis
promises
to
be
a
familiar
face
at
Fort
Bragg. And
he
plans
on
bringing
powerful
friends
with
him.
North
Carolina's
junior
senator
is
on
a
mission
to
educate
Congress
on
the
unique
role
of
Fort
Bragg. Tillis'
visits
will
highlight
those
important
differences.
And
hopefully
that
will
mean
well
for
the
post
in
the
future. The
"scope
and
scale,"
is
hard
to
explain,
Tillis
said. So
instead,
he's
engaging
in
"show
and
tell,"
with
his
fellow
leaders. The
first
visit
for
Tillis
saw
him
bring
along
Sen.
Joni
Ernst
of
Iowa
and
Sen.
Johnny
Isakson
of
Georgia."
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In
Case
You
Missed
It:
VA
Extends
Benefits
for
Camp
Lejeune
Victims
In
December,
the
VA
finally
granted
some
justice
to
veterans
who
were
exposed
to
contaminated
drinking
water
while
assigned
to
Camp
Lejeune.
The
VA
announced
it
will
grant
disability
status
to
the
victims
of Camp
Lejeune's
poisoned
water
who
are
diagnosed
with
one
of
the
eight
illnesses
associated
with
long
term
exposure
to
the
chemicals
that
contaminated
the
base
water
system
from
1953
-1987. In
September
2015,
both Senator
Burr and
Senator
Tillis pressed
the
VA
at
a
Senate
Veterans’
Affairs
Committee
hearing
on
Camp
Lejeune
for
answers
about
granting
Lejeune
veterans
disability
status.
Bureaucratic
red
tape
and
internal
resistance
at
the
VA
delayed
a
final
decision
for
years.
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Editorial:
"North
Carolina
Sens.
Richard
Burr
and
Thom
Tillis
and
former
Sen.
Kay
Hagan
all
deserve
credit
for
their
work
on
this
issue.
It’s
refreshing
to
see
an
issue
unite
politicians
from
opposite
sides
of
the
aisle." |
Tillis
Reviews
First
Year
Thom
spent
time
with
the
North
Carolina
media
talking
about
what
Congress accomplished in
2015
and
what
he
has
in
store
for
2016.
Thom
wrote an
op-ed
about
his
bipartisan
accomplishments
during
his
first
year,
partnered
with
Senator
Burr
to
highlight
their
work
for
our
military
and
veterans,
and
interviewed
about
many
other
topics.
In
2016,
Thom
hopes
there
will
be less
gridlock
in
Congress,
and
thinks
President
Obama
and
Congress
should
both
up
their
game
to
produce
results
for
the
American
people.
Please
continue
to
contact
Thom
if
you
or
anyone
you
know
has
any
problems
with
a
government
agency.
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“I
think
that
this
(Obama)
administration,
through
various
tax
policies
over
the
last
seven
years,
has
heaped
on
tax
and
regulatory
burdens
that
are
really
squeezing
businesses
to
the
point
of
failure,”
Tillis
said.
“We’re
going
to
spend
a
lot
of
time
trying
to
repeal
or
delay
regulatory
policies
that
we
think
will
add
to
the
cost
of
uncertainty
—
the
EPA
emissions
standards,
the
waters
of
the
U.S.
These
are
all
things
that
translate
into
a
real
significant,
immediate,
additional
cost
of
doing
business.”
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Senator
Tillis
at
Fort
Bragg
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