United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
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Tester, Moran Urge VA Action to Safeguard Veterans’ Earned Compensation and Pension Benefits
(U.S. Senate) – Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) are urging Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough to protect veterans from losing their earned compensation and pension benefits as a result of administrative and mailing issues in the federal government.
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Tester, Moran Take Bipartisan Action to Improve Veterans Crisis Line
Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) are teaming up to introduce a bipartisan bill aimed at improving the Veterans Crisis Line’s (VCL) staff training, management, and response to high-risk veteran callers at risk of suicide.
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Benefit News: Senators Introduce Bill to Increase Accountability at VA
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Jon Tester, D-Mont., ranking member of the committee, today introduced the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, bipartisan legislation that would reform the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by allowing the secretary to dismiss bad employees and ensure appropriate due process protections for whistleblowers.
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Benefit News: Isakson Statement on Confirmation of Dr. David Shulkin as VA Secretary
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, today released the following statement after David Shulkin, M.D., was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to become secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: