Reports
Veterans & Troops: A Progress Report on the New Direction Congress
04/09/2009
A NEW DIRECTION FOR VETERANS & TROOPS |
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AMERICAN RECOVERY & REINVESTMENT ACT - 111TH CONGRESS | ||||
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Giving businesses tax credits for hiring unemployed veterans, and providing disabled veterans a payment of $250 to help make ends meet during this economic crisis. |
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Building new transition centers for wounded warriors returning from combat, more military child care centers, and better barracks and military family housing. |
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STRENGTHENING VETERANS' SERVICES - 110TH CONGRESS | ||||
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Focusing quality care on the 333,000 veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly those with PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury. |
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Reducing the 396,000 claims backlog and the 177-day average wait for veterans to access earned benefi ts by adding 5,100 new claims processors. |
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Expanding VA health care to 250,000 veterans with no service-connected disability who had been cut off by President Bush. |
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Modernizing the disability claims processing system, expanding mental health care, providing counseling for veterans’ family members and addressing the needs of rural veterans. |
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STRENGTHENING BENEFITS FOR TROOPS & FAMILIES - 110TH CONGRESS | ||||
Providing a New GI Education Bill, a pay raise, better military health care and family leave to care for wounded soldiers. |
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Cleaning up the scandal of inadequate care for our wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and facilities nationwide. |
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Strengthening Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury care at military facilities and preventing TRICARE and veterans health care fee increases proposed by the Bush Administration. |
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Expanding relief and homeownership opportunities for returning veterans through VA home loans. |
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Providing Family Medical Leave for families of soldiers wounded in combat. |
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STRENGTHENING THE AMERICAN MILITARY - 110TH CONGRESS | ||||
Rebuilding our military readiness-at its lowest level since the Vietnam War |
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Providing more Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles than President Bush requested, which are proven to save lives in Iraq. |
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Creating a Strategic Reserve Readiness Fund to rapidly address military equipment shortfalls and ensuring more equipment, training, and body armor for our troops. |
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Expanding the number of troops to meet our national security needs. |
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