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While Americans disagree on foreign policy, everyone can agree that our warriors and their families should be given the best medical treatment for ailments from their time of service. That certainly is the case for more than 750,000 people who might have been contaminated by harmful chemicals in the tap water at Marine Corps Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The contamination struck from 1957 to 1987. Read more »

The House Budget Committee is poised to pass two measures on Monday to avoid across-the-board federal budget cuts in January and also restore $8 billion in previously approved defense cuts. Read more »

I attended Wreaths Across America at Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, Florida, this past Christmas. Barrancas is the final resting place to more than 40,000 veterans and their loved ones. The cemetery traces its roots back to the Civil War, where both Union and Confederate soldiers were buried in the cemetery’s 94 picturesque acres onboard Naval Air Station Pensacola. Read more »

The House Veterans Affairs Committee sent a bill to the full House on Friday that would move veteran-specific job training program and homeless vet reintegration programs from the Department of Labor to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read more »

The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee moved Friday to strip the Labor Department of veterans’ employment and rehabilitation programs. Read more »

President Obama is wrapping up a week of talking about student loans with the signing of an executive order that attempts to limit deceptive or misleading practices by schools that target current and former service members and their families. Read more »

Douglas Bragg, the director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’s Oakland Regional Office, will appear next month before members of the California Congressional delegation to answer questions about the performance of his office, which handles all disability claims filed by veterans from Bakersfield to the Oregon border. Read more »

Three Florida lawmakers are urging the Department of Veterans Affairs to move forward with a major construction project at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center that a VA cost analysis said would more than pay for itself over the next 30 years. Read more »

As many as 8,000 veterans will return to Connecticut as the military draws down its forces overseas and cuts personnel, and the state is getting ready for them Read more »

U.S. veterans need protection from schools that exploit them, siphoning off educational benefits and luring them into debt, President Barack Obama says. Read more »