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24 Oct 2007, 8:50 am
United States Senators Dick Durbin and Barack Obama say their own investigation raises serious questions about Veterans Affairs Department claims that officials couldn't have known about a surgeon's troubling history before he was hired at the Marion VA hospital. [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 6:33 pm
Armed Forces service medal veteran -- any veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 6:41 am
February 11, 2008 MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE GENERAL COUNSEL, DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND SOLICITOR, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR The Department of Labor ("DOL") has determined that the Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA") failed to pay the required prevailing wage to eleven alien physicians employed by VA hospitals pursuant to the H-1B visa program. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 2:42 pm by Native American Rights Fund
S.524: A bill to establish the Department of Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee on Tribal and Indian Affairs, and for other purposes. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 2:42 pm by Unknown
S.524: A bill to establish the Department of Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee on Tribal and Indian Affairs, and for other purposes. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 8:12 am
Of the 153 Veteran Affairs hospitals around the nation monitored by a comprehensive assessment, 62 percent illustrated a decrease in the rate of infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in intensive care units, according to The New York Times. [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 1:28 pm by Levin Papantonio
Department of Veterans Affairs has confirmed that no veteran will lose health or disability benefits or have their disability rating adversely adjusted directly as a result of participating in the settlement, and no VA facility will be able to recover or subrogate any portion of a plaintiff’s award. [read post]
1 Apr 2021, 10:48 am by Geoff Schweller
On March 26, President Biden announced his intention to nominate Maryanne Donaghy to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection (OAWP). [read post]
26 May 2017, 2:29 pm by Mike Worgul
According to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), nearly 2 million American soldiers have been killed in the line of duty. [read post]
21 Jan 2020, 11:46 am by Jason Smith
(SenateNJ.com) Under the law, a disabled veteran is defined as a State resident who has been honorably discharged from any branch of the United States Armed Forces and has been declared by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as having a service-connected disability of any degree. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 11:38 am by Eva Arevuo
An example of this is when the Department of Veterans Affairs threatened to take back $19 million from Massachusetts if it went through with the burial of a veteran’s same-sex spouse in a cemetery that was built with federal money. [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 10:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Code, Title 4, Chapter 1: The Flag Flying the American Flag at Half-Staff Ordering a Flag Flown over the United States Capitol Correct Method of Folding the Flag (.PDF document) Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Policy on Flag-Folding Recitations Veterans' Salutes during National Anthem [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 9:00 pm by Rory Berry
According to a recent article in Stars and Stripes, the Department of Veterans Affairs denies over 80% of benefits claims filed by Veterans for illnesses and conditions related to the Gulf War. [read post]
24 May 2021, 12:58 pm by Eugene Volokh
Consistent with the above definitions, the Department of Veterans Affairs defines "veteran" as "a person who served in the active military, naval, or air force, and who was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable. [read post]
18 Nov 2018, 1:03 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, November 14, 2018 – “Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States government has spent and obligated more than $5.9 trillion on wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other places around the world, according to the Costs of War Project. [read post]