On Tuesday, the House will consider 6 items on the suspension calendar H.R. 2433 (Veterans Opportunity to Work Act), H.R. 2074 (Veterans … Assault Prevention Act), H.R. 2302 (a bill dealing with notification of Congress about conferences sponsored by the Department of Veterans … Affairs), H.R. 2349 (Veterans’ Benefits Training Improvement Act), H.R. 1263(a measure to provide surviving spouses of service members…
eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year in the twenty-first century, we pause to honor our veterans … on this Veterans Day and remember that first of the great world wars, which ended the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh…
A little over a month ago, I had the opportunity to put together a video honoring Veterans Day to be shown at BlogCon 2011 in Denver … In conjunction with FreedomWorks, I was able to get a handful of questions about Veterans Day over to a handful of politicians to have … When I sent the word out to these various politicians and policy makers that I wanted them to talk about veterans, I gave some very…
Gallup reports that veterans and active military are less likely to approve of President Obama’s job performance. … Gallup found that 37% all active-duty military personnel and veterans approve of Obama’s job performance compared with 48% of nonveterans … Obama’s job performance to be an indication that Veterans will favor Obama’s opponent in 2012 as they did in 2008.…
MADDOW: Throwing veterans onto the mercies of the for-profit healthcare system. … I mean – there – you can’t find a person in politics who doesn’t say we shouldn’t (sic) do right by our veterans. … You know, I don’t understand why we have such a problem, because there have been a number of surveys of veterans, and overall, veterans…
A Veterans Affairs IG report indicates that 307,000 American veterans died while awaiting medical care. … for Veterans: a bold, comprehensive effort to restore confidence in the VA. … employees that may be damaging the department’s reputation and, even worse, putting veterans at risk.…
The things you learn about veterans never fails to amaze me. … There are all sorts of organizations that support veterans, such as the Gary Sinise Foundation. … He stops frequently to talk about veterans in his family and in his wife’s.…