I want to just say that now that the health care bill has passed and the rhetoric and the politics and the noise can be set aside, now we will have an opportunity to let the American people know about what is in it. This is going to be…
Deborah L. Halvorson
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July 28, 2010
Absolutely not. You have the amendment, as do I, and it just takes $10 million out of the general operating to put it into major construction. You know, there are needs everywhere.…
— Deborah L. Halvorson
It is about the benefits. It is about everything that is due to our veterans and that we are not doing, so I want to make sure that whatever it is that comes of this, that we do a better job.
Our motto here is, if you were there, we care. And we need to make sure that we truly do care and don't just give it lip service.
This bill is right-minded and forward-thinking. As such, VVA endorses for enactment H.R. 1335.
My first bill is H.R. 1335, which would prohibit the collection of co-payments and other fees from catastrophically disabled veterans.
My amendment is very simple. It will make surviving spouses eligible for assistance from the SBA's Veterans Business Centers.





