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Administration officials ruled Monday that the Department of Veterans Affairs will be exempt from massive federal budget cuts scheduled to go into effect early next year. Read more »

Key lawmakers are appealing directly to President Obama to get the Veterans Affairs Department to provide free health care to veterans who were exposed to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune during a 30-year span that ended in 1987. Read more »

The Department of Veterans Affairs has greatly overstated how quickly it provides mental-health care for veterans, according to an inspector general’s report released Monday. Read more »

The Department of Veterans Affairs would be exempt from automatic, across-the-board reductions in federal budget growth that could take effect in January, the Obama administration said Monday. Read more »

Syracuse University hosted the "Conference on Engaging Community Support for Veterans" to help veterans in Central New York. It happened Friday morning at the OnCenter, hosted by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families and Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle. Read more »

Congress is back session, but the Committee was hard at work during our district work week. Rep. Jeff Denham, a member of the Committee, held a field hearing in Modesto, California, to discuss the role of Vet Centers within the VA system and reaching out to OIF/OEF veterans, while I had the privilege to visit with our troops in Afghanistan... Read more »

Today, Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, issued the following statement on the Office of Management and Budget’s announcement that VA healthcare is exempt from sequestration... Read more »

Today, Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, issued the following statement on the Office of Management and Budget’s announcement that VA healthcare is exempt from sequestration: “This decision, nine months in coming and after numerous Congressional inquiries and my own letter to the President in January, is long overdue.… Read more »

Today, Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, issued the following statement on VA’s announcement to hire additional mental health practitioners: “Today, VA announced that they are hiring 1,900 new mental health care practitioners. We have seen high vacancy rates across the country—which in some areas are as high as 23… Read more »

Today, Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, issued the following statement on VA’s announcement to hire additional mental health practitioners... Read more »