Amata Updates Veterans Regarding Korean War Memorial’s Wall of Remembrance
Weekly Activities of Natural Resources and Veterans Committees
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is apprising Veterans of an ongoing congressional oversight effort regarding inaccuracies on the newly unveiled Korean War Memorial’s Wall of Remembrance.
This week, Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) with Ranking Member Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), numerous Chairmen and Senators, led a bicameral oversight request for information regarding potentially hundreds of inaccuracies and spelling errors on the Wall of Remembrance, a new addition that honors fallen heroes as part of the national Korean War Memorial.
Amata in Veterans Committee Oversight hearing this week
“I will provide updates to our veterans as this effort develops, so we can all know that the over 36,000 Service Members who gave their lives, and the 1.8 million Americans who served in theater, are properly honored at this beautiful Memorial,” Amata said.
The wall was authorized by Congress in the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall of Remembrance Act (Public Law 114-230) signed into law by President Obama in October 2016. The rest of the Memorial, managed by the National Parks Service, also had a recent upgrade under the Commemorative Works Act. Veterans can read the full letter on this issue to Secretary of Defense Austin here.
In other news, the full Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held its first oversight hearing of the 118th Congress with Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Inspector General Michael Missal, focusing on corrective measures for past VA shortcomings identified in IG reports.
Also, the House Veterans Committee and the Senate Committee in a yearly joint hearing took testimony from Veterans Service Organizations (VSO) about their priority issues as they work directly with the nation’s millions of Veterans. These hearings will continue next week.
This week, the full Natural Resources Committee held a legislative hearing on a discussion draft of the Building United States Infrastructure through Limited Delays and Efficient Reviews (BUILDER) Act of 2023. This legislation, led by Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana, would modernize the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) statute to provide more certainty to local governments in dealing with transportation, infrastructure and energy.
Finally, the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs (IIA), on which Amata also serves, held an oversight hearing on efforts to unlock Indian Country's economic potential based on potential streamlining of land use restrictions.
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