Jeff Miller helped open up the VA to private contractors. Now he’s out of office and lobbying for those businesses.
The Indian Treaty Room is a grand two-story meeting space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, with French and Italian marble wall panels, a pattern of stars on the ceiling and the image of a compass worked into the tiled floor. Over the years, it has hosted signing ceremonies for historic foreign policy pacts such as the Bretton Woods agreement and the United Nations Charter.
Top: Then-Rep. Jeff Miller arrives at the Capitol for a vote in July 2014. Bottom: David Shulkin, then the secretary of Veterans Affairs, arrives at the White House on Nov. 1, 2017. | Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call; Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images As the VA has become an increasingly attractive target for corporate lobbying, Miller has emerged as a one-man gatekeeping operation. Although he has no military experience, the former television weatherman was an early backer of Trump’s campaign—which, with his former committee chairmanship, gives him close ties to Congress, the agency and the administration.
Miller did not respond to multiple email messages and telephone inquiries. His lobbying partner, Moran, declined to discuss his clients. Miller, right, speaks with Veterans of Foreign Wars commander-in-chief Richard DeNoyer before the start of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee and House Veterans' Affairs Committee joint hearing on March 7, 2012. | Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call
From his chairman’s perch on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee and in frequent cable news interviews, Miller said he was investigating
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