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Computerworld – In person, it’s hard to think of David Paschane as small — he’s 6 feet 5 inches tall. But when you consider his position within the vast U.S. Department of [...]

Washington Free Beacon – The White House threatened to veto on Monday legislation that would fund benefits and housing programs for needy veterans, arguing that the money would be better [...]

Time – Officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs likely won’t acknowledge it publicly until later this year, but those responsible for processing disability claims believe the [...]

Yahoo! News – President Barack Obama is “deadly serious” about wiping out the massive backlog in veterans’ disability benefits claims by 2015, White House press secretary [...]

Stars and Stripes – Now, more than half of the country’s nearly 22 million living veterans are receiving at least one benefit or service guaranteed to them because of their service to [...]

Bloomberg Businessweek – The U.S. House voted to give the Veterans Affairs Department, which was exempted from this year’s budget cuts and furloughs, the money to hire more staff in fiscal [...]

The Hill – The House on Tuesday voted to penalize senior officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with salary cuts and blocked bonuses, a response to the failure of the VA to [...]

Washington, D.C. – On June 4, 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 671, the Ruth Moore Act, by a voice vote. The Act aims to spur reform of the evidentiary standards for [...]