Today, Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, issued the following statement on President Obama’s Executive Order, Improve Access to Mental Health Services for Veterans, Service Members, and Military Families:
“For the past two years, this Committee and Congress have been pushing the Obama Administration to take the very actions the… Read more »
Today, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs released the following breakdown of taxpayer expenditures to host a VA HR conference in Orlando, Florida, last year:
$1.2 million: Participant Travel
$786, 505.00: Program Funds
$296,165.00: “Audio Visual Center”
$184,800.00: Morning and Evening Refreshments
$113,076.00: Staff Travel
$98,189.70: Catering (4… Read more »
Today, Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, along with Rep. Bob Filner, Ranking Member of the Committee, released a letter sent August 16, 2012, to Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Honorable Eric K. Shinseki, regarding VA conferences expenditures and the VA OIG conference investigation. To view the letter, please click… Read more »
Differences over timelines and planning continue to plague the construction of the new Orlando VA Medical Center. At a House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs field hearing today in Orlando, Florida, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the prime contractor, Brasfield and Gorrie, both promised to continue efforts to reach consensus on how best to move forward to complete the… Read more »
Today, Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, issued the following statement on the preliminary findings of a Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General investigation:
“A week ago today, President Obama signed into law H.R. 1627, one provision of which instructs VA to report to Congress any conferences that cost more than… Read more »
Today, Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, issued the following statement on his bill, The Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 (H.R. 1627), being signed into law:
“Today, our government took action and corrected the injustice of ignoring the health and wellbeing of Camp Lejeune Marines and their… Read more »
Today, the Subcommittees on Oversight and Investigations (O&I) and Economic Opportunity (EO) held a joint oversight hearing on the Center for Veterans Enterprise (CVE). The CVE has come under scrutiny from the Committee about the way it conducts its verification and re-verification of veteran-owned small businesses (VOSBs) and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses… Read more »
Today, the House of Representatives unanimously passed the Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 (H.R. 1627). The bill, now headed to the President for signature into law, will bring immediate VA healthcare to Camp Lejeune veterans and their families who have been diagnosed with a disease related to the water contamination that occurred at the… Read more »
Today, the Subcommittee on Health held an oversight hearing reviewing the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) ability to deliver prosthetic care to veterans. The hearing was a continuation of a similar hearing the Subcommittee held in May and a response to VA’s inadequate answers to post-hearing questions about reforms to the prosthetic procurement process.
Subcommittee… Read more »
Today, at a joint hearing of the House Veterans’ Affairs and Armed Services Committees, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki, confirmed that under sequestration, VA would face cuts, possibly affecting the administration of veterans’ benefits and services, stating, “VA is exempt from sequestration except for administrative costs… I don’t have a… Read more »
