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About this episode

I'm saving this cut of the Rachel Maddow show, on the evening of 4.07.09, to show how those we hire to represent us don't. Not only was Sen. Richard Burr placing a hold on the nomination of Tammy Duckworth an OIF Veteran for the VA, much needed placement of this nominee as two theaters of occupation are still at hand and much has been surfacing as to the incompent way the Veterans Administration was Administered under the previous Executive Branch, but this also shows how he and his staff conduct their job of representation, they don't. If trying to get answers from them or just writing them on concerns they tend do as a previous Senator, Sen Dole, did they don't respond. Send an e-mail, regular or fax, no e-mail, et.el, response comes back even acknowledgement of receiving your correspondence, and instead every once in a great while one gets a regular mail response, and these are extremely rare unless an election is coming up than they fly into your mailbox in bulk. There's another example as well. We found out he had stopped his, no excuse for, hold on Tammy's nomination on the afternoon of the seventh, yet in doing a search after hearing that and into the next day there is no Press Release either publicly or at his Senate website saying the nomination is no longer on hold nor his reasons for that hold, Nothing. We find out in the evening on the Rachel Maddow Show, and she's not hired by us to Represent, her job is Journalism and reporting the facts.

• Release Date

  Apr 8, 2009

• Runtime

  02:16