U.S Department of Veterans Affairs – In February 2015, the Louisville VARO has been evaluated. The Louisville VARO did not consistently process two types of disability claims. Overall, 11 [...]
Military Times – Five hundred and fourteen days. That’s how long it took to get the emergency department at the Colmery-O’Neil VA Medical Center in my home state of Kansas [...]
Stars and Stripes – The Navy is launching an investigation into whether the operating conditions at the military commissions site at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are tied to a reported high rate [...]
FEDweek – The VA is circulating a position paper to Congress stressing that it is taking disciplinary actions against its employees, in opposition to a bill pending a House vote (HR-1994) [...]
Stars and Stripes – Hundreds of soldiers who’ve come home from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan now are battling the very companies that helped operate their base camps, claiming constant [...]
US Senate – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-GA., chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, called on the Department of the Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald to [...]
The Washington Post – Several months into his job as Veterans Affairs Secretary, Robert McDonald visited the subbasement in the agency’s main Washington office to meet with the [...]
WFYI – U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald says his department is making progress in rebuilding trust lost in last year’s scandal involving manipulated wait times and [...]
Bangor Daily News – A bill named for a Washington County woman and designed to help veterans who survived sexual assault in the military was passed Monday night by the U.S. House of [...]
The Washington Post – The House voted Wednesday to cut workplace protections for Department of Veterans Affairs employees and extend their probationary period, making it easier to fire new [...]