House OKs limits on schools recruiting vets
The House voted Tuesday to prevent schools that accept GI Bill benefits from paying bounties for recruiting students.
House OKs limits on schools recruiting vets
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The House voted Tuesday to prevent schools that accept GI Bill benefits from paying bounties for recruiting students. Medics Being All They Can Be Find Civilian Job Barriers
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Army Specialist Daniel Hutchinson once sliced a man’s throat to keep him breathing. He knows how to slip a needle between a patient’s ribs to re-inflate a lung. He fastened tourniquets on dozens of shredded limbs during 12 months in Iraq. Congress courts veterans leading up to election
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Congress is using its relatively few working days before November's general election to send a message of support to the nation's 21 million-plus veterans. No legislative breakthroughs are expected, but lawmakers in both parties hope the late push will help them make their case to a critical voting bloc. Lawmaker: Troops need time off for TAP training
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A key lawmaker said he likes the improvements being made in military transition assistance programs but worries that service members might not get enough time away from duties to take full advantage of those improvements. Conference costs draw congressional ire
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What began as a dramatic but seemingly isolated scandal over wasteful conference spending at the General Services Administration has expanded to include a dozen agencies. Tricare networks eyed to improve veterans' access to care
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has proposed opening military Tricare networks of civilian health care providers to veterans who can’t get timely mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Attorney pleads guilty in Houston to stealing $2.3 million from disabled vets
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A 73-year-old attorney pleaded guilty in Houston federal district court Tuesday to conspiring with his wife to steal $2.3 million from 49 disabled veterans and then hiding the thefts by creating fake reports, imaginary bank accounts and filing a bogus income tax return. Veterans Retraining Assistance Program For Unemployed Servicemembers Attracts Thousands
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As Congress remains at a loggerheads over how to reform the nation's signature jobs training program, a new opportunity being offered only to unemployed veterans seems to have confirmed one thing: there is a desperate hunger for job training during one of the worst periods of extended unemployment since the Great Depression VA investigators interview family of veteran whose room was monitored by covert camera
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Department of Veterans Affairs investigators Tuesday interviewed the family of a brain-damaged veteran whose room was monitored by James A. Haley VA Medical Center officials using a camera disguised as a smoke detector. Agencies resist Congress on conference spending data
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Demands for a full accounting of federal conference costs are being rebuffed by agencies that can't or won't produce spending records sought by Congress. Browse Documents by Date or Issue |