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| VA Secretary Pressed by Senator on High Percentage of Wrongly Denied Benefit Claims |
March 16, 2010, Washington, DC (CQ Politics) - A leading Republican senator on Tuesday asked Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to explain why so many veterans’ benefit claims are wrongly denied, resulting in a high rate of reversal on appeal. |
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| Profile of New Veterans' Courts in New York Times |
Defendants Fresh From War Find Service Counts in Court - VCS Supports Veterans' Courts March 15, 2010, Charleston, West Virginia (New York Times) — When Judge Robert C. Chambers handed down Timothy Oldani’s federal sentence for selling stolen military equipment on eBay, he gave the former Marine a break. |
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| Presdent Obama Donated $250,000 of Nobel Prize Money to Fisher House |
March 11, 2010, Washington, DC (New York Times) - President Obama made good on his promise to give his $1.4 million Nobel Prize money to charity, releasing the names on Thursday of the organizations that will benefit. |
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| Philanthropist Bobby Willis to Build New $3.3 Billion Hospital for VA in Farmington, NM for Rural and Native American Veterans |
Proposed state-of-the-art Kirtland veterans clinic could provide as many as 8,000 jobs March 14, 2010, Farmington, New Mexico (Farmington Daily Times) — A proposed veterans complex in Kirtland centered around a new hospital, backed by a wealthy entrepreneur and costing an estimated $3.3 billion promises to bring state-of-the-art medicine and other benefits to veterans, as well as 8,000 jobs to the local economy. |
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| Dr. Haley at UTSW Presents Compelling Brain Images Showing Gulf War Illness |
VCS Asks VA: Since UTSW Research Remains Vital to Understanding Gulf War Illness, Then Why Did a Handful of VA Staff in Washington Impede UTSW Contract and Then End Funding for UTSW? March 9, 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah (Science News) - Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that their vague jumble of symptoms constitutes a legitimate illness. Here, at the Society of Toxicology annual meeting, yesterday, researchers rolled out a host of brain images – various types of magnetic-resonance scans and brain-wave measurements – that they say graphically and unambiguously depict Gulf War Syndrome. |
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Special Message from Chairman John Hall About HR 952
Written by John Hall
Sunday, 23 August 2009 14:12
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Friends, As you know, I have introduced legislation this Congress that would dramatically improve the lives of many veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). My bill, HR 952, would lower the burdensome threshold that veterans have to meet to receive compensation for injuries incurred in service, namely PTSD. It will help clear the enormous VA disability claims backlog that is significantly delaying or denying benefit payments to veterans for their disabilities. I write to you today to ask you and your organization’s help in demonstrating just how important this legislation is to our nation’s veterans. Over the last few months, I have been asking my constituents to visit my website and become citizen co-sponsors of the bill, also known as the COMBAT Act. I now ask that you encourage your members across the country to do the same. These citizen co-sponsorships will demonstrate the broad support for providing veterans suffering from PTSD with the best care possible. People from across the country, with the full spectrum of backgrounds and experiences, now have a chance to make their voice heard. With your help, we can show other Members of Congress how important this issue really is, and put pressure on the House to pass this legislation into law. Please direct your members to http://johnhall.house.gov/veterans_combatact.asp, which will allow them to sign up as citizen co-sponsors of the COMBAT Act. Thank you for your attention to this important matter for our veterans. Sincerely, John J. Hall |