Thanks for visiting this site! Please visit our sponsors,
make a donation, advertise or subscribe-
All are appreciated-Thanks!
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."- Abraham Lincoln
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- General George Patton Jr
Call Your Senator Or Representative
Toll Free:
800-828-0498,
800-459-1887
and 800-614-2803
LET THEM KNOW YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION AND VOTING
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
-- John Adams (Address to the Military, 11 October 1798)
Veterans can find out information about using their VA Benefits including the VA Loan benefit.
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail.
Without it nothing can succeed.
He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.
"-Abraham Lincoln
House Approves Bipartisan Veterans’ Bills; Buyer Provisions to Improve VA Health Care and Insurance Programs Included
Washington, D.C. – Today, the House approved three veterans’ measures, including an omnibus bill that
combines provisions from nine
bills previously approved by two
subcommittees to improve
Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) health care and life
insurance programs.
H.R. 3219, the omnibus bill,
included a provision originally
in H.R. 2270 introduced by
House Committee on Veterans’
Affairs Ranking Member Steve
Buyer, which would provide a
$1,000 a month benefit to all
WWII civilian groups that were given veterans’ status under the G.I. Bill Improvement Act of 1997. A previously passed House bill provides a similar benefit only to WWII Merchant Mariners.
“I am pleased that the House voted to provide equity for these brave men and women who served valiantly during World War II,” said Buyer. “Groups such as the Flying Tigers and the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPS) clearly deserve any benefits that similar categories of veterans are entitled to, and I am thankful that so many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle agree with this provision.”
Another Buyer provision in H.R. 3219 would allow veterans to purchase additional amounts of Veterans Group Life Insurance (VGLI). Currently, the amount of VGLI coverage cannot be changed.
Because the level of coverage must be made within the first year of discharge, and because most separating servicemembers are young and single, many select levels that become insufficient as they age and have families.
Buyer’s provision, originally in H.R. 2379, would allow veterans to purchase up to $400,000 of VGLI coverage in $25,000 increments, every five years, until the age of 60. The cost of such increases would be offset by premiums, so there would be no direct cost to taxpayers.
H.R. 2770, which was introduced by Chairman Filner and Ranking Member Buyer, would modernize and clarify the laws governing VA Nonprofit Research Corporations (NPC).
“NPC’s were first authorized in 1988 and provide valuable support for VA-approved research and education that benefit our nation’s veterans,” said Buyer. “However, it has been more
than twenty years since we have updated
the laws governing their operation and
this legislation would update existing
law to improve the operation of
non-profit research organizations to
better meet the needs of the VA.”
H.R. 3155 would improve and increase
services to support family caregivers,
by expanding outreach, education,
respite care, travel benefits, and mental
health counseling. The bill would also
recognize the unique needs of severely
wounded OEF/OIF warriors by providing
a stipend to certain family caregivers, and it would extend CHAMPVA eligibility to those without health insurance.
“Caregivers of wounded warriors face their own difficulties while learning to deal with stress and emotions, changes in job or family income, or complex patient care needs that can come with providing care for their loved one,” said Buyer. “It is important that family caregivers are given the much-needed support to help them fulfill this vital role and bipartisan legislation like this will help them do so.”
 | ||||||
