Nearly two decades after a local coalition began its push for a national cemetery, more than 80,000 Pikes Peak region veterans will soon have a final place to call home. Ground will be broken soon on the Pikes Peak National Cemetery near the Colorado Springs Airport after an effort that brought together unlikely allies and a few circumstances that backers of the cemetery attribute to having God on their side. The 374-acre site is on former ranchland that borders Jimmy Camp Creek. The rolling hil...
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Congressman Lamborn is pleased to announce a milestone in construction of the Pikes Peak National Cemetery in Colorado Springs. The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a $31 Million construction contract to a developer with a Fall 2019 completion date. The project has been a high priority for the Congressman and the contract is the next step in honoring the service of Colorado veterans. Colorado Veterans have worked toward this achievement for more than 20 years and the Congressman’s work on ...
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Congressman Lamborn questioned Secretary McDonald about the recent revelations of falsified wait times at our Community Based Outpatient Clinic. He released this statement: “Today, in a VA Committee hearing, I questioned VA Secretary Robert McDonald. I wanted to get to the bottom of the shocking news that our Colorado Springs Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) was erroneously reporting that wait times were eliminated when in fact a tremendous backlog was accruing. The Secretary refused to ...
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Today Congressman Lamborn released the following statement regarding the discovery that the VA secretly paid an Illinois-based hospital director $86,000 to resign: “The fact that a member of the Senior Executive Service was paid to resign, instead of being fired for his misconduct, highlights the ineffectiveness of the Department of Veteran’s Affairs current system of accountability. It is a travesty that tax-payer dollars are being used in a manner that effectively amounts to a severance bonus ...
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