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“The Editor’s Desk” sits down once again with Congressman Jeff Miller, R-FL, the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee to talk about the state of the VA, veteran hiring, the war in Afghanistan, and the upcoming presidential election. Read more »

The U.S. government is a month away from offering retraining funds for older military veterans who can’t find jobs, and unless federal bureaucrats step up their game, veterans won’t find the money, lawmakers said. Read more »

The Labor Department has identified 210 occupations in which unemployed veterans could find work after as little as one year of education and training through the new Veterans Retraining Assistance Program. Read more »

A congressional subcommittee on Wednesday gave fair warning to the Veterans Health Administration to make sure its purchasing agents are not splitting up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of acquisitions in order to avoid federal contracting rules. Read more »

Veterans Affairs officials said they’re on pace to fill all 45,000 spots in the new Veterans Retraining Assistance Program in the coming weeks. Read more »

In a reversal, the Veterans Health Administration will now apply federal acquisition rules when buying “biologics” -- medicines made from human tissue and bone that it had classified as “prosthetics” and exempted from such rules, officials said Wednesday. Read more »

House appropriators think they’ve found a way to balance the federal checkbook, honor the government’s commitment to 22 million military veterans and family members, and still boost spending on them in 2013. Read more »

The House this week will approve legislation requiring the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to comply with a federal law that prohibits discrimination against employees who have military service obligations. Read more »

U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) released the following video statement in commemoration of the upcoming Memorial Day weekend to honor our brave service members who have lost their lives fighting to protect our country. Read more »

Decoration Day, as Memorial Day was originally known, was conceived in May 1868 and was first observed at Arlington National Cemetery to bring together the families of the fallen to help heal the wounds of a war that had threatened to tear our young nation apart. Read more »