Julia Brownley: “I want to thank my colleagues here today who have introduced legislation intended to improve the lives of veterans and…”

These militarized raids are not routine immigration enforcement. They are part of a deliberate, disruptive, and ongoing campaign of cruelty that is an unacceptable assault on our way of life.

I will just say to the VA and to the management of the VA that we all know that this is a crisis situation.

We envisioned it to not only as a raise for those who are already maxed out, but as an opportunity for VA to reassess nurse and physician assistants pay across the board.

It seems pretty simple to me that the VA, in order to write this letter to survivors, they have to come up with an itemized list.