The Public Record
May I take a moment to thank our staff on both sides of the aisle for the tremendous job and the many late nights that they have spent here and put up with us and produced this good bill. Madam Chairman, I urge everyone to support the bill.
H.R. 4850 is the Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2000. This is a clean bill providing a cost-of-living adjustment to disabled veterans and their surviving spouses. Current estimates indicate that the increase will…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 284 would require employers to give employees who are a member of a reserve component a leave of absence for participation in an honor guard for the funeral of a veteran. Mr. Speaker, there has been substantial progress…
H. Con. Res. 351, recognizes Heroes Plaza in the City of Pueblo, Colorado, as honoring recipients of the Medal of Honor. The city will host the annual convention of the Medal of Honor Society later this year. I urge my colleagues to…
H.R. 1982 names the Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in Rome, New York, after Donald J. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell, a five-term Member of the House, is being honored because of his service as a naval aviator in two wars. A…
H.R. 4864 is the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000. The bill includes difficulties veterans have experienced with the claims processing since the Veterans Administration's implementation of a decision in the case of Morton v. West…
H.R. 4850 is the Veterans Benefits Act of 2000. The bill includes a cost-of-living adjustment for VA disability compensation and survivors benefits. It also includes a number of changes in program eligibility and benefit improvements. I…
H.R. 4268 would take our first steps to improve veterans' education benefits as recommended in the commission report. It would increase the Montgomery GI Bill from $536 to $600 per month on October 1, 2000, and to $720 a month on October…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 747 amends the 1910 act of Congress that granted the State of Arizona's entry into the Union. This bill makes two minor changes to the Arizona Enabling Act relating to the administration of state trust funds. This…
I believe this clarification will help us address DOD needs while being mindful of private sector concerns.
I said the Clinton-Gore budget. This Republican budget increase has the largest increase in history for veteran VA health care. I want to commend the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kasich), the chairman of the Committee on the Budget, and the…
H.R. 559 would add bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma to the list of diseases presumed to be service-connected for certain radiation-exposed veterans. This disease is a very particular type of rare lung cancer occurring among veterans who are…
We are being shortchanged in this bill. We are getting back less than 10 percent of this for veterans' savings, and that is simply not fair to the veterans of this country.
In closing, let me just say, as others have, that we will be observing Veterans Day here in just a couple of days to honor all those who have served this Nation. I urge my colleagues to support this bill because it will provide meaningful…
A lot of people put a lot of time in achieving this bill, and I especially want to thank the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. Everett], the chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr…
H.R. 1090 extends the grounds upon which a veteran may appeal an adverse benefit decision to the Board of Veterans Appeals and to the Court of Veterans Appeals. The bill allows appeals based on what is known as a clear and unmistakable…
Mr. Speaker, the provisions of this bill come from both House and Senate-passed initiatives during the 104th Congress to enhance, improve, and continue many veterans benefits. The bill makes positive changes to the administrative functions…
Mr. Speaker, the House-Senate agreement, which produced this legislation, includes provisions from several bills passed by the House during the 104th Congress. These bills are H.R. 1384, to allow VA employees to work outside the VA; H.R…
H.R. 3673, the veterans' compensation and readjustment benefits amendments of 1996, makes various improvements to VA disability programs, education benefits, and administration of the home loan program. It also reauthorizes the Homeless…
Our amendment would increase the funds available for administration of the Veterans Employment and Training Service by $3.8 million. This increase would be offset by a reduction in funding from the national activities account of the…
Mr. Chairman, we are offering an amendment which sets forth a simple choice in Federal funding priorities. First, it strikes $206 million in cuts from V.A. medical care and construction accounts. Second, the amendment offsets an identical…
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