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Julia Brownley is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 26th congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has focused on issues such as women's health, reproductive rights, and immigration reform throughout her tenure. Brownley has been an advocate for Planned Parenthood, emphasizing the importance of access to reproductive health care for women across the country. Additionally, she has spoken out against aggressive immigration enforcement tactics, describing them as a campaign of cruelty.
On November 7, 12 lives were stolen from us during the shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in my district. As our community began to reckon with this tragedy, I said: ``Today we mourn. Tomorrow we work to end the senseless gun violence…
And I think part of that answer, quite frankly, is this, and that is, in August the VA reported more than 45,000 vacancies at the Department.
I do believe that the numbers of women veterans committing suicide is becoming a much more significant factor.
I think those, in many cases, those partnerships are going to help to better serve veterans.
I am open to the idea if there is space available and we are not taking away from patient care.
I shudder to think if you weren't on top of this compliant issue, it would be worse than it is.
I would have liked to ask the VA about this issue today, but unfortunately the VA wasn't given adequate time to prepare their views.
I too want to thank our colleagues on the Committee, Congressman Mast and Congresswoman Esty, for introducing these bills.
But the question is, do we have the appropriate number of Community Living Center beds across the country?
Your commitment to this Subcommittee and the Veterans we serve is undeniable
I would argue we need higher standards for our Veterans because their cases are complicated.
It is a matter of equity to have the post-9/11 men and women receive the caregiver services.
Veterans prefer to stay in their home generally, and I believe also that many of these in-home services or community-based services at the end of the day is less expensive in the long run than institutionalized care is.
I appreciate the time you are taking out of what I know to be a very, very busy schedule to come and visit
By turning a congressional eye towards VA's long-term care services, I am hopeful that we can bring more attention to these programs.
So just in terms of we are using CLC, for the audience that is a Community Living Center which is like a nursing home...
VA long-term care services have somewhat flown under Congress's radar for far too long.
I think it is important in many respects for the VA to compare themselves to the private sector.
We, the Committee Members, argued very strongly against this, that this would be a very dangerous road to travel.
So while we are here in Ventura County I just want to get a firm agreement from you, Dr. Boyd, that we can bring some professionals, VA professionals into the county so that we can have a roundtable discussion or whatever to inform our…
In terms of nursing home ratings that don't have very good scores, I think we are fortunate here that we have two that do.
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