Today, Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, released the following statement after the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released its National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report, revealing a decrease in veteran suicide from 2018 to 2019.
“I am thrilled to learn that the veteran suicide rate decreased in 2019. This is… Read more »
Today, Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), led a letter to Chairman Takano urging him to bring the Committee back to Washington, D.C. immediately to conduct a full committee hearing on veteran mental health following the events in Afghanistan.
Additional co-signers of the letter include: Rep. Jack… Read more »
House Veterans Affairs' Committee Ranking Member Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.) will join House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), and Republican members who have served in Afghanistan for a press conference tomorrow, Tuesday, August 24,… Read more »
Today, Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, at the start of the Committee’s markup of eight veterans' bills:
Thank you.
We are here this afternoon to consider eight bills that would impact the delivery of care and education, home loans, and compensation benefits to veterans.… Read more »
Today, Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, released the below statement following the Committee markup of eight veterans’ bills which would impact the delivery of care and education, home loans, and compensation benefits to veterans:
“I am proud of the bipartisan work that our Committee did today on six of the eight bills that came… Read more »
Today, Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, released the following statement after the House passed two bills to bolster services at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
“The two bills that the House passed today will help VA better-serve veterans and non-veterans alike,” said Ranking Member Bost. “S. 957, the DUMP Act, will… Read more »
Today, House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Mike Bost (R-Ill.) and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.) are urging the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make critical improvements to its travel reimbursement program for the nation’s veterans.
“We write today to formally express our ongoing concerns regarding the roll out of the Department… Read more »
Next week, Ranking Member Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.) will join Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), the House Republican Conference Secretary, Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), and military veterans at a press conference on Tuesday, July 27, at 5:00pm EST to discuss a new rule on pistol stabilizing braces proposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives (ATF). The press… Read more »
Today, Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.), the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Health, released the following statements after they introduced three key pieces of legislation to improve health care and services at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for veterans and their caregivers.
“It’s… Read more »
Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Mike Bost (R-Ill.), Chairman Mark Takano (D-Calif.), and Subcommittee on Technology Modernization Chairman Frank J. Mrvan (D-Ind.) introduced the VA Electronic Health Record Transparency Act after today’s Subcommittee hearing. Following two major Inspector General reports detailing significant issues with VA’s Electronic Health… Read more »
