Julia Brownley: “VA's relationship to its academic affiliates is essential if VA is to provide the level of health care that we all…”

I will say, though, that I, back in November, I visited the Los Angeles Regional Office and met with VBA employees there.

This legislation will increase the mileage reimbursement rate for VA's Beneficiary Travel Program.

It is just I feel as though we have given--this committee has given the VA a lot of tools and sometimes those tools are underutilized to get to the goals that we are trying to get to.

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.