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“I was young, but I remember campaigning, being in parades with her, throwing candy,” says Gonzalez, a research assistant for the Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s Health subcommittee.

TAMPA --The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill prompted by an I-Team investigation into companies illegally charging veterans for services which, by law, should be free.

I’d go back tomorrow — if they’d let me fly,” says the staff director for the Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s Economic Opportunity subcommittee.

Representatives Jeff Miller of Florida and Bob Filner of California hosted a Veterans Employment Summit in Washington on Sept. 13 to discuss best practices for hiring veterans in the private sector.

Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis celebrated two victories this week as the House Veterans Affairs Committee, for which the Sunshine State congressman serves as vice chairman, passed two bills he introduced.

“I don’t know [if I’m] a lifer,” says the professional staff member for the Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, “but I see myself here for a while.”

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“This is the last place anybody who knows me would have expected me to be,” says the Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s majority staff director for the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee.

The House of Representatives could vote as early as next week on sweeping legislation that makes the Veterans Affairs Department more dog-friendly.

WASHINGTON — The ambitious jobs plan outlined by the president Thursday night may be a tough sell in Congress, but lawmakers appear on the verge of advancing at least one piece of unemployment legislation in the near future: A new veterans jobs bill.