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Thousands of veterans struggling to find work across the nation will have a better chance to land a job under a measure the House unanimously passed Wednesday.

A landmark $1.7 billion package of veterans employment aid has passed Congress and is on its way to the White House, where President Obama has vowed to sign it into law.

At the center of the effort have been the chairs of the Veterans' Affairs Committee in each chamber: Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). Earlier this year, each began working on separate legislation designed to help unemployed ...

Congress is getting ready to send President Barack Obama a bill helping government contractors and unemployed veterans that contains the first shred of his jobs plan likely to reach his desk for his signature.

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Marlin Stutzman (IN-03) and his colleagues on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs worked to identify potential ...

Veterans advocates said Tuesday it "doesn't pass the smell test" that senior officials with the ... Blake told the House Veterans Affairs Committee. ...

Major veterans organizations offered suggestions Tuesday on ways to cut the Veterans Affairs Department budget, including scaling back bonuses for executives, mandatory overtime, the size of administrative staff and a costly program for shredding documents.

House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller said he hopes that won't be an issue, and that VA funding will emerge unscathed from the sequester ...

By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY The Department of Veterans Affairs may have wrongly ... wrote in a letter last month to the House Veterans Affairs Committee.

A three-year-long campaign to honor the memory of 14 special servicemembers came to a triumphant end on Oct. 24as hundreds gathered atop Arlington National Cemetery's Chaplains Hill to dedicate a new Jewish Chaplains Memorial.