{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/following-tubervilles-demands-senate-veterans-affairs-committee-schedules-hearing-about-va-budget-shortfall/", "Following Tuberville\u2019s Demands, Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee Schedules Hearing about VA Budget Shortfall", "2024-09-12", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cVeterans and taxpayers deserve answers. This hearing is the first step to ensuring this disaster never happens again.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Yesterday, following calls by U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and other Senate colleagues for increased oversight, the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee scheduled a hearing on the $15 billion budget shortfall at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In August, Senator Tuberville penned an op-ed in the Daily Caller exposing the VA\u2019s budget shortfall. In the piece, Sen. Tuberville sounded the alarm on the lack of transparency at the VA and called on the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT) to hold an oversight hearing immediately.\n\nIn addition to the op-ed, Sen. Tuberville and his colleagues previously sent a letter to Chairman Tester demanding a hearing to evaluate the budget lapse and the extent to which mismanagement contributed to it.\n\n\u201cAfter weeks of waiting, I am happy to see Senator Tester finally agree to my insistence that a hearing must be held on the budget crisis at the VA.,\u201d said Senator Tuberville. \u201cThis glaring misuse of taxpayer money at the Biden-Harris VA shouldn\u2019t be brushed off. Our veterans deserve better.\u201d\n\nAt the hearing, Sen. Tuberville intends to ask questions related to the timing of the VA\u2019s notice to Congress on the shortfalls, workforce challenges impacting the budget, and why senior leaders aren\u2019t being held accountable for these too frequent budget missteps. He wants to know exactly how this happened and ensure the appropriate measures are in place so it does not happen again.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/following-tubervilles-demands-senate-veterans-affairs-committee-schedules-hearing-about-va-budget-shortfall/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.1647231187671423, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}