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Last week, the Committee held its first markup of the year after numerous hearings on a variety of subjects affecting America’s veterans, their families, and survivors... Read more »

The House Veterans Affairs Committee sent a bill to the full House on Friday that would move veteran-specific job training program and homeless vet reintegration programs from the Department of Labor to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read more »

Today, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs favorably reported five pieces of legislation with bipartisan support (H.R. 4072, as amended; H.R. 4114; H.R. 4201; H.R. 4482; and H.R. 3670) for full House consideration. H.R. 4072, as amended, the Consolidated Veteran Employment Services for Improved Performance Act of 2012, would move the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Veterans… Read more »

Today, Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, issued the following statement on President Obama’s Executive Order, “We Can’t Wait:” “More than 600,000 veterans have used the Post-9/11 GI Bill to improve themselves and their futures through higher education. Consumers should be informed, especially when taxpayer dollars… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, issued the following statement on President Obama’s Executive Order, “We Can’t Wait:..” Read more »

The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee moved Friday to strip the Labor Department of veterans’ employment and rehabilitation programs. Read more »

President Obama is wrapping up a week of talking about student loans with the signing of an executive order that attempts to limit deceptive or misleading practices by schools that target current and former service members and their families. Read more »

Douglas Bragg, the director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’s Oakland Regional Office, will appear next month before members of the California Congressional delegation to answer questions about the performance of his office, which handles all disability claims filed by veterans from Bakersfield to the Oregon border. Read more »

Three Florida lawmakers are urging the Department of Veterans Affairs to move forward with a major construction project at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center that a VA cost analysis said would more than pay for itself over the next 30 years. Read more »

As many as 8,000 veterans will return to Connecticut as the military draws down its forces overseas and cuts personnel, and the state is getting ready for them Read more »