Steve Buyer News Archives

While questions have been raised about the charitable foundation founded by U.S. Rep.

Man cited for DWI while operating motorized La-Z-Boy. Let's put aside the DWI stuff for a sec.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki got a bipartisan hug from the House Veterans Affairs Committee last week as lawmakers accepted his plan to fix post-9/11 GI Bill payment delays, and blamed their own rush to enact the complex education benefit last year for some of the challenges VA now faces.

The biggest accomplishment so far of U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer's scholarship foundation has been to send the Indiana congressman to play golf with donors at luxury locales such as the Bahamas and Disney World.

You may remember Indiana Representative Steve Buyer from these comments made earlier this year: Too often we should be careful about being cute here on the House floor.

One of the big lessons of dealing with a political scandal is that you want your first story to be one you don't have to drop completely after two or three days.

VA Secretary Eric Shinseki got a bipartisan hug from the House Veterans Affairs Committee on Wednesday as lawmakers accepted his plan to fix Post-9/11 GI Bill payment delays, and blamed their own rush to enact the complex education benefit last year for some of the challenges the VA now faces.

Steve Buyer defends his scholarship foundation, which has yet to help a single student.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki got a bipartisan hug from the House Veterans Affairs Committee on Wednesday as lawmakers accepted his plan to fix Post-9/11 GI Bill payment delays, and blamed their own rush to enact the complex education benefit last year for some of the challenges VA now faces.

The Veterans Affairs Department committed grave safety mistakes at several of its medical centers and delayed other needed educational and financial services to thousands of veterans, agency chief Eric Shinseki said Wednesday to a congressional panel.

FAKE BONNER LETTERS TO RECEIVE COMMITTEE TREATMENT: The string of forged letters produced by embattled lobbying firm Bonner & Associates will soon become objects of interest for the House's Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

The $2 billion Naval Surface Activity facility, the Naval Surface Warfare Center and the WestGate at Crane Technology Park are opening new positions in the region, and the WestGate will help promote those openings, according to Gene Shaw, president of the WestGate Authority.

By Michele Masterson , ChannelWeb 11:58 AM EDT Fri. Oct. 09, 2009 Just a week after AT&T complained to the Federal Communications Commission about Google Voice, a group from the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday also asked for an investigation.

Despite what a handful of lawmakers may say, the dispute between Google and AT&T over the search giant's Google Voice application is not so much about fairness or rural access as it is about steamy phone sex and piles of money .

Friday, October 09, 2009 1:50 PM PDT The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will launch an inquiry into Google Voice, the Web-based voice service, after complaints that the tech giant is blocking some calls.

Twenty members of Congress are backing telecom giant AT&T in its request that the Federal Communications Commission probe Google Voice for blocking calls to rural areas.

They didn't pass the 2010 veterans' budget on time - for the 20th time in 23 years - but House lawmakers took a historic vote Thursday to enact legislation that would prevent disruption from similar budget lapses in the future.

Ten lawmakers representing rural districts asked the Federal Communications Commission Thursday for an investigation into Google's voice calling service, which is blocking some calls to rural areas.