January 29, 2010
At least four either Senate or House Veterans Affairs' Committee meetings will include verbal testimony from The American Legion in the next few weeks. Invitations to other hearings could come.
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January 27, 2010
Deputy VA&R director testifies before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on the problems facing servicemembers moving into civilian life.
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January 14, 2010
Legionnaires are urged to contact their senators and representatives to ask them to support H.J. Res. 47, S.J. Res. 15.
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January 7, 2010
The American Legion is closely monitoring the health-care debate and how it will affect veterans and military retirees.
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December 10, 2009
Legislation includes $134.6 billion allocated toward critical VA, military programs.
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November 13, 2009
House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner says medical facilities for veterans and military personnel stand to suffer if a new national health-care system becomes law.
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November 5, 2009
Speaker says VA offers lessons for national health-care reform
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November 2, 2009
The American Legion and 12 other VSOs signed a letter of thanks to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., expressing appreciation for his help in moving important legislation on VA health care quickly to the Senate for a floor vote.
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October 30, 2009
Although The American Legion applauded a 3.4-percent pay increase for servicemembers and an additional 30,000 troops for the U.S. Army, it expressed disappointment that Congress failed to improve certain veterans benefits.
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October 22, 2009
Past National Commander Clarence Bacon likes the way The American Legion’s National Legislative Council keeps Legionnaires in touch with their members of Congress so much that he broached the idea in his state of Maryland.
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