By Salena Zito
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, touts his record on veterans issues as Democratic challenger Joe Sestak, a former Navy admiral and congressman, jabs Toomey about whether he’s really supportive of those who served and their families.
There are 21.8 million veterans of the armed forces — nearly 1 million in Pennsylvania — so those votes could be important when Toomey defends his seat in 2016.
Katie McGinty, an environmentalist who was Gov. Tom Wolf’s chief of staff and has the backing of former Gov. Ed Rendell, stepped into the Democratic primary race in August. She has not weighed in on veterans’ issues.
Toomey, a member of the Senate Congressional Veterans Jobs Caucus, told the Tribune-Review that recent 
problems, such as the Department of Veterans Affairs’ backlog in processing health care claims, “were completely unacceptable. We have made improvements, but we still have a long way to go with that.”
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