VMF Caucus News

October 21, 2019

News from DC - The Week of 2019-10-21

U.S. Senate There is nothing on this week's Senate schedule as far as plannedvotes or committee hearings related to veterans or military families. U.S. House ***** At some point this......
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October 07, 2019

Marking Hispanic Heritage Month: Honoring Medal of Honor Recipient Roy Benavides

The Democrats Abroad Veterans and Military Families Caucus along with the Hispanic Caucus proudly recognizes the unparalleled patriotism of Medal of Honor recipient Master Sergeant Raul “Roy” P. Benavidez.  As......
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October 06, 2019

News from DC -The Week of 2019-10-06

RELATED TO CONGRESS Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) introduced S. 2594 [bill text not yet publicly available online], a bill to modify certain requirements with respect to service and retirement for......
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October 03, 2019

Trump Steals From Military To Pay For His Wall

Background: Last week, the House voted to terminate Trump’s fake national emergency after the Senate passed a bipartisan resolution. Trump is abusing his constitutional powers by going around Congress after......
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October 03, 2019

News from DC -The Week of 2019-09-01

CONGRESS U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ-4) introduced H.R. 2435, the Accelerating Veterans Recovery Outdoors Act. This is a bill with widespread bipartisan support. The bill would establish an interagency task......
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October 03, 2019

News from DC -The Week of 2019-07-26

CONGRESS  Earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed by voice vote the following bills: 1) H.R. 2943 (introduced by Rep. Gil Cisneros [D-CA-39]), a bill to provide benefits......
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September 14, 2019

Reimbursement for Emergency Care

According to NBC News and The Hill, a federal court has vacated the Department of Veterans Affairs rule that released it from reimbursing a veteran who receives emergency medical care......
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September 14, 2019

Redirecting funding to border wall delays projects

According to an Air-Force report that NBC News says it has obtained, by redirecting funding previously allocated by congress for Military construction to build a stretch of wall along the......
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August 18, 2019

Items of Interest August 2019

CONGRESS   U.S. House *On 8/22, the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee will hold a subcommittee hearing on “Housing our Heroes: Addressing the Veteran Homelessness Crisis”...
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August 17, 2019

Enhancing the Presence of DA Overseas and Improving the GOTV Program by Gene Gerth, August 17th, 2019

This article relates to ways used in the past by those of us in Democrats Abroad Korea to implement the above statements. The author of this article, however, is retired......
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