Firebrand in Veterans Panel Chair

Week of January 15, 2007

Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.), the new chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, speaks with enthusiasm for any and all initiatives that might help veterans improve their quality of life. But Filner is seen as such a partisan, and his rhetoric can be so imprecise, that some veterans' advocates wonder what this firebrand will achieve as chairman. For more information, read the article on the Military.com website.