Bruce L. Braley

We absolutely support your bill and we absolutely support the intent of what you are trying to do because this is a major problem for our veterans.

Common-sense legislation to provide employment protection for veterans who need medical treatment for their service-connected injuries or to provide complete information about educational opportunities is how we protect those who served…

It is time to remedy this inequity.

I am pleased to have introduced H.R. 3524, the Disabled Veterans Employment Protection Act, which seeks to provide service-connected disabled veterans with employment protections in the workplace.

The same issues that faced my father and that 88-year-old veteran when they came home from World War II are facing today's veterans.

I would challenge the Department of Defense to audit the data base the Military Times currently has with 13,500 DSC recipients, 7,000 Navy Cross recipients, 194 Air Force Cross recipients and fewer than 3,500 Medals of Honor and find that…

I was actually at Walter Reed this morning talking to a young Marine from my district who had both of his legs blown off in Afghanistan and is back for revision surgery.

It is estimated that approximately one out of every four combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are out of work. That's unacceptable.

One of the things we kept hearing was the need to help servicemembers translate their military skills to the civilian jobs.

I urge the White House to release the study.

Yet, sadly when you have a unit that had served the longest combat deployment in Iraq and they come home and somebody at the Pentagon cuts their orders short by one, two, three, four, or five days, so they are ineligible for a $250 a month…

Rarely has our country asked citizen soldiers to shoulder so much of the burden of war.

I think we can solve a lot of these problems, but we have to put our heads together.

And if we have people like Nathan Rose out on our front lines protecting us, then we have a solemn duty to them to do everything we can by not just slapping them on the back and telling them good job but actually helping them find a good…

This interagency program will help change the lives of 99,000 unemployed veterans.

I'm very proud to have worked with this Committee to pass the Vow to Hire Heroes Act.

I am very proud to have worked with this Committee to pass the Vow to Hire Heroes Act

I am pleased that the Vow Act includes tax incentives for hiring veterans that I have been pushing all year.

I introduced the Combat Veterans Back to Work Act, which provided tax incentives to employers to hire veterans

I believe that unless we remedy these concerns, the same problems that have haunted the VA's verification program will remain.

What I'm hearing here is we almost need a service corps of retired veterans who can help mentor other people, business owners, people wanting to start a small business, and share experiences of making this transition and doing it…

What we need is a Rosetta Stone program for transitioning veterans to understand how to use those same job skills and language in a much different workplace

One of the biggest obstacles for veterans transitioning to the civilian workforce is that they come out of a world of acronyms

The statistics the Chairman cited are totally unacceptable. When one out of every four returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are out of work, that is a shameful legacy for this country.

I would respectfully recommend some attention be given to what is provided in the way of outplacement services for our veterans.