WASHINGTON, DC – House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.) and Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), today released the following statements announcing comprehensive, sweeping legislation to pass the Major Richard Star Act – as well as over 60 bipartisan bills – through a negotiated veterans’ package between the House and the Senate in… Read more »
Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, at the start of the Committee’s legislative hearing with external stakeholders on 10 House Republican bills included in the Committee’s reauthorization initiative to update expired authorities, strengthen oversight, modernize the delivery of healthcare, benefits,… Read more »
Today, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, led by Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), reported out 16 bills to be eligible for consideration by the full House of Representatives. Remarks on each of these bills can be found here.
“From advancing new ideas to expand the reach of VA’s mental health and TBI healthcare services, to bringing needed accountability to VA’s budget… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Recently, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health Chairwoman Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), alongside Jen Silva, Chief Program Officer, at Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), published the below joint opinion piece in Stars and Stripes following the Subcommittee’s March hearing on the effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on active-duty… Read more »
This week, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), published the below opinion piece in the Washington Times as part of the publications infrastructure edition to discuss House Republicans’ proposed reforms to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) leasing and construction processes to reform and improve key aspects of VA’s infrastructure to better serve… Read more »
Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), and Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.), released the following joint statement after Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins announced that the agency will offer $112 million dollars in grants for organizations through the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program in… Read more »
Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), released the following statement after the Committee held a legislative hearing to discuss the 27 bills as part of the Committee’s reauthorization initiative to review, improve, and reauthorize specific programs and sectors at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) – many of which have not been comprehensively… Read more »
Today, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), the Chairwoman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health, delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, at the start of the subcommittee’s oversight hearing to discuss the effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on active-duty servicemembers and then as they become veterans and the steps the Department of… Read more »
Today, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, led by Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), reported out 5 bills to be eligible for consideration by the full House of Representatives, including Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Mich.) and House Republicans landmark bill, H.R. 6047, the Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act, top priority legislation that seeks to increase the… Read more »
Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, at the start of the Full Committee’s oversight hearing to assess Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Colllins’ plans to reorganize and restructure certain aspects of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) – including VA’s VISN map – with the goal… Read more »
