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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.

Yesterday, the VFW was on hand at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill, where the House Committee on Veterans Affairs moved forward with seven pieces of critical veterans' legislation -- many of which the VFW has supported in testimony before the committee this year.

A key House committee approved a $1.5 billion veterans’ employment bill Thursday that promises a new job retraining program for veterans aged 35 and older who have been out of work for at least 26 weeks as well as improvements in transition assistance, job placement and professional licensing initiatives for all veterans.

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Leaders in commerce and warfare share a common vocabulary—words like strategy, tactics, dominance, conflict and victory. Success in the military provides young people with leadership and management experience that can contribute to success in business. But the transition from waging war to conducting commerce is not always easy.

BIG SPRING — U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, took a firsthand look at how rural health care for veterans is administered Thursday.

House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Florida, and U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Midland, listen as Daniel Marsh, director of the West Texas VA Health Care System, talks during a briefing Thursday in Big Spring.

WASHINGTON — Veterans deserve better than to return from service only to stand in an unemployment line, U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller told American Legion members on Wednesday.