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NEWS from Hearing on Department of Veterans Affairs services for women veterans

Witness List and Statements

At left, Rep. Corinne Brown (D-FL), Ranking Democratic Member of the House VA Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, asks a follow-up question. Listening are, from left, Subcommittee Minority Staff Director Bill Crandell, Subcommittee Chairman Terry Everett (R-AL), and Majority Staff Director Kingston Smith. At right, Dr. Linda Schwartz, chair of the VA’s Advisory Board on Women Veterans, emphasizes a point in her testimony.
At left, Marsha Tansey Four, chair of the Women Veterans Committee of Vietnam Veterans of America, gives her prepared remarks. On the same panel were Joy J. Ilem, Associate National Legislative Director, Disabled American Veterans; and Jacqueline Garrick, Deputy Director for Health Care for The American Legion’s National Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Commission. At right, the first speaker of the last panel was Joan Furey, Director of the VA’s Center for Women’s Veterans. She was joined by Robert Epley, Director of Compensation and Pension Service for the VA’s Veterans Benefits Administration, and Carole Turner, Director of the Women Veterans Health Program for the VA’s Veterans Health Administration.