Download or read book Hearing to Examine Arlington National Cemetery Burial Waivers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hearing to Examine Arlington National Cemetery Burial Waivers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearing To Examine Arlington National Cemetary Burial Waivers Hearing Serial No 105 27 Committee On Veterans Affairs U S House Of Representatives 105th Congress 2nd Session written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1999* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arlington National Cemetery written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the waiver process for burials in Arlington National Cemetery, focusing on: (1) the trends in waiver decisions; (2) whether legal authority exists to grant waivers; (3) the process used in making waiver decisions; and (4) the criteria applied in the decisionmaking. GAO noted that: (1) since 1967, 196 waivers have been granted for burial at Arlington cemetery, and at least 144 documented requests have been denied; (2) of the granted waivers, about 63 percent involved burial of individuals in the same grave site as someone already interred, or expected to be interred; (3) although the Secretary of the Army has no explicit statutory or regulatory authority to grant waivers, it is legal for the Secretary to do so, in part, because of the general legal authority of the Secretary for administering Arlington; (4) GAO found that most waiver requests have been handled through an internal Army review process involving officials responsible for the administration of Arlington; (5) however, this process is not followed in all cases; (6) for example, in the case of presidential waiver decisions, the Army process is generally bypassed; (7) in addition, this process is not widely known or understood, which in some cases has appeared to provide advantages to those who were persistent enough to pursue a waiver request or who were able to obtain the assistance of high-level government officials; and (8) while those responsible for making waiver decisions appear to apply some generally understood criteria, these criteria, which are not formally established, are not always consistently applied or clearly documented.
Download or read book H R 3423 to Amend Title 38 United States Code to Enact Into Law Eligibility of Certain Veterans and Their Dependents for Burial in Arlington National Cemetery written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Arlington National Cemetery written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided supplemental information to its testimony on waivers granted for burial at Arlington National Cemetery, focusing on: (1) the job performance of the current Arlington Superintendent; (2) record-keeping practices at the Arlington Cemetery prior to 1991; (3) a job performance summary of the Arlington Superintendent from 1975 through 1990; (4) whether political contributions were a factor in granting burial waivers; and (5) the degree of difficulty in verifying Ambassador Larry Lawrence's record of service in the Merchant Marine within the 24-48 hour period in which a decision had to be made on a burial waiver. GAO noted that: (1) given the absence of clear, formal criteria for making waiver decisions, it is difficult to characterize the decisionmaking attitude of the various officials involved in making Arlington National Cemetery burial waiver decisions or recommendations; (2) GAO's work has shown that the current Superintendent was less wiling to approve waiver requests than other Army decision-makers; (3) Army waiver decision records were often incomplete, particularly for cases decided during the period from 1967-1990; (4) despite these limitations, GAO was able to obtain some information on earlier waiver decisions, in part, from the efforts of the current Superintendent; (5) the current Superintendent has adopted the policy of creating a waiver file for each waiver decision; (6) to reduce the risk of incomplete recordkeeping in the future, the Army may want to consider imposing formal recordkeeping requirements for waiver decisions that include all relevant background material, decision papers, and explanatory documents from all offices or individuals involved; (7) although the previous Superintendent did have a role in recommending approval or denial of burial waiver requests beginning with the Reagan Administration, he did not generally prepare a memorandum documenting his recommendation to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works (ASA-CW); (8) instead, for most of the waiver requests received by the Army during the previous Superintendent's tenure, he and the military assistant to the ASA-CW would jointly decide whether to recommend approval or denial of a request; (9) letters from requesters and the Cemetery's replies to them were kept in a correspondence file along with documents about all types of burial requests and were destroyed after three to five years; (10) GAO's review of Army waiver files did not suggest that political contributions played a part in waiver decisions; (11) however, the absence of evidence in these files alone does not permit GAO to conclude whether or not political contributions were a factor; and (12) based on the limited objectives of GAO's work, the information it obtained does not shed light on how difficult or easy it would have been for the Superintendent to verify Ambassador Larry Lawrence's record of service in the Merchant Marine within a 24-to-48-hour period in which a decision had to be made on a waiver.
Download or read book Arlington National Cemetery Burial Eligibility Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arlington National Cemetery written by Richard L. Hembra and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arlington National Cemetery written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accountability at Arlington National Cemetery written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Download or read book Arlington National Cemetery written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Focused Issues on Dignified Burials written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book H R 3039 the Veterans Transitional Housing Opportunities Act of 1997 and H R 3211 Enacting Eligibility Requirements for Burial at Arlington National Cemetery written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Benefits and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Activities Report of the Committee on Veterans Affairs House of Representatives One Hundred Fifth Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
