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Bipartisan Bill To Help Returning Vets Stuck In Congress
With congress so divided on everything, it is hard to imagine what type of bill can pass these days and be signed into law. However,…
Congressmen Call For Resignation Of Top VA Aide
The fall out from the VA Conference scandal continues with two Republican Congressmen calling for the resignation of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki’s chief of staff,…
Minnesota Vets On Opposite Sides of Voter ID Battle
In Minnesota this November, voters will go to the polls to decide if the state needs to change its voter identification laws. Veterans seems to…
VA Touts Paperless System As Backlog Cure
The Department of Veterans Affairs is at it again with the claims backlog. They are claiming that new paperless system will clear the claims backlog…
Mystery Republican Holds Up COLA Vote For Disabled Veterans
In another shifty move by Senate Republicans, one Senator anonymously blocked the annual vote for the Cost of Living Increase for disabled veterans. This serves…
Romney Mistakes Defense Spending For Veterans Health Care
Toady, Mitt Romney was cited conflating defense spending with veteran health care. He is already following through with campaign promises on that 47% of Americans….
Obama Losing Veterans Vote To Romney
In reporting from Politico today, President Barack Obama is lagging behind Governor Mitt Romney by double-digits in veteran support. This appears to be especially true…
Supreme Court: Veterans For Common Sense v. VA
Pioneer Press columnist Ruben Rosario recently interviewed me about our position in the current Veterans For Common Sense cert. request to the Supreme Court. In…
Governor Moonbeam Stands Up For Vets
As a child of the nineties, I grew up thinking of California’s Jerry Brown as Governor Moonbeam. He was a throwback to the hippie culture…
Veterans Jobs Bill Faces Vote
The fight over the budget is wreaking havoc with a veterans jobs bill. The program was initially proposed by President Obama in his State of…
Sequestion May Still Cut Veterans’ Educational Benefits
On Thursday, many veteran organizations attended a round-table held by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Walz (MN) and others were in attendance. I was…
Both Parties Court Vets Vote Before Election
Congress is mining the veteran population for votes this election season and both Democrats and Republicans are trying to gain some ground this essential voting…