In case you missed it, last week the House passed H.R. 6047, the Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act, landmark legislation led by Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Mich.) to provide the first significant increase in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits for veterans’ survivors, Gold Star families, and service-connected, catastrophically disabled veterans in decades. To find m... Read More »
Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Mich.), and House Committee on Financial Services Chairman French Hill (R-Ark.), released the following statements after the Ho... Read More »
Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, at the start of the Committee’s legislative hearing with external stakeholders on 10 House Republican bills included in the Committee’s reauthorization initiative to update expired authorities, strengthen oversight, modernize the delivery of healthcare, benefits, research,... Read More »
Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, at the start of the House Committee on Rules hearing on two House Republican bills that will be considered on the House floor this week, H.R. 1041, the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act, led by Chairman Bost and H.R. 6047, the Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans ... Read More »
Ahead of House Floor consideration this week of Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Mich.) and House Republicans landmark bill, H.R. 6047, the Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act, the bill’s namesakes, the Briley and Edmundson family’s published the below opinion piece underscoring the impact the proposed Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits increases in the bill would have o... Read More »
Today, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, led by Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), reported out 16 bills to be eligible for consideration by the full House of Representatives. Remarks on each of these bills can be found here. “From advancing new ideas to expand the reach of VA’s mental health and TBI healthcare services, to bringing needed accountability to VA’s budget management and cemetery se... Read More »
Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, at the start of the Full Committee’s oversight hearing to examine the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) plan to comply with President Trump’s recent executive order to expand housing for veterans struggling with homelessness by establishing the National Center for Warri... Read More »
Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Chairman Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.), launched an investigation into allegations the Committee has received regarding George Washington University potentially defrauding and withholding student veterans from receiving thousands of dollars in their earned Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) GI Bill benefits, specif... Read More »
Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Chairman Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.), alongside Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.), Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Mich.) and Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), introduced H.R 8532, the VA Home Loan Affordability Act, comprehensive legislation to reduce bureaucratic barriers in the Department of Veterans Affai... Read More »
Today, Rep. Morgan Luttrell (R-Texas), the Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, at the start of the subcommittee’s oversight hearing to examine the delivery of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) pension, fiduciary, and life insurance benefit programs which provide... Read More »
This week, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), released the following statement after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) confirmed that veterans with fiduciaries who, due to seeking help managing their VA benefits, were previously automatically added to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) li... Read More »
Today, Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.), the Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, at the start of the subcommittee’s oversight hearing to examine the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veteran Readiness and Employment program (VR&E) to ensure it is fiscally responsible for tomorrow’s disable... Read More »
Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, at the start of the Full Committee’s oversight hearing to discuss how under the leadership of Secretary Collins, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) has made landmark progress in reducing the VA disability compensation benefits backlog – which has dropped by more than... Read More »
WASHINGTON, DC – Recently, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health Chairwoman Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), alongside Jen Silva, Chief Program Officer, at Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), published the below joint opinion piece in Stars and Stripes following the Subcommittee’s March hearing on the effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on active-duty servicemembers and... Read More »
This week, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), published the below opinion piece in the Washington Times as part of the publications infrastructure edition to discuss House Republicans’ proposed reforms to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) leasing and construction processes to reform and improve key aspects of VA’s infrastructure to better serve veterans across ... Read More »
