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Disabled American Veterans testified Tuesday in Washington that the Veterans' Affairs claims backlog has grown to 800,000 pending cases. Read more »

-- U.S. Rep. John Mica (R-Winter Park) toured the VA Medical Center construction site at Lake Nona today with VA officials to see first hand what is causing delays in the project. The VA announced last month that the project originally scheduled to be completed by October 2012 will not open until summer of 2013, at the soonest. Read more »

Two years after Congress passed a high-profile law to improve health care for military veterans, lawmakers and advocates are again raising alarms that the sprawling Department of Veterans Affairs is not expanding help for the nation's former fighters and their families as quickly or widely as intended. Read more »

Recently, we've seen signs that our economy is beginning to turn around, which is positive news for those seeking work in the Tampa Bay area. While we are far from a robust economic recovery we all would like, one group in particular that continues to struggle to find work is our nation's veterans who are rejoining the civilian workforce. Read more »

An Ohio congressman has introduced legislation that would move veteran-owned businesses closer to the front of the line when seeking contracts from the Veterans Affairs Department. Read more »

After prodding from his family, Ron Moser went to the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Fort Wayne because he was having "nightmares from hell." The Vietnam War veteran said he was given medication for flashbacks, told he was mentally ill and threatened with a 72-hour stay for observation. Read more »

Congressman Marlin Stutzman (IN-03) and the Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Jeff Miller (FL-01) held a veterans’ affairs forum in Fort Wayne Tuesday. Dozens of area vets showed up with concerns ranging from unemployment to mental health. Read more »

Dayton National Cemetery has more safeguards in place to ensure veterans and their family members are buried in the right grave sites since two people buried in the 1980s were interred in the unmarked graves of two Civil War veterans, two congressman said. Read more »

Dayton National Cemetery has more safeguards in place to ensure veterans and their family members are buried in the right grave sites since two people buried in the 1980s were interred in the unmarked graves of two Civil War veterans, two congressman said. Read more »

Congressman Mike Turner is taking action after wrongly marked graves were discovered in the Dayton National Cemetery. Read more »