Staff from the Legion’s Economic Division are meeting with the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders today to discuss the HAVEN Act. If enacted, the HAVEN Act would establish a pilot program to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to nonprofit organizations to rehabilitate and modify homes for disabled and low-income veterans.
Economic Division staff is participating as a working group member at the Department of Energy (DoE) with representatives from National Institute of Building Sciences, U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Energy Management Program, the Energy Efficiency Hub in Philadelphia and some veterans credentialing experts to understand all the moving pieces of the DoE, GSA and military veteran workforce credentialing efforts and how those pieces fit together, and identify where the remaining challenges are and what the solutions are to those challenges.
Legislative Division staff are attending a hearing by the House Small Business Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade, “Keystone XL Pipeline and Small Business Jobs.”
Economic Division staff will brief the National Press Club American Legion Post 20 in Washington, D.C., to discuss the Legion’s national legislation priorities, and explain how the national office works and other legislative programs the national office coordinates.
Ian de Planque of the Legion’s Legislative Division is testifying before the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on a variety of bills related to veterans issues.
Economic Division staff are meeting with Paul Fain, senior reporter, Inside Higher Education, to discuss higher education policies and legislation, and to begin identifying panel members and participants for The American Legion’s National Convention upcoming education roundtable.
Economic Division staff is meeting with Rep. Al Green’s staff to discuss the HAVEN Act. Green reintroduced the bill in the 113th Congress; Legion staff is discussing co-sponsorship and strategizing on how to get the bill through the House.
American Legion Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation Division staff are spending May 13-15 at the Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office in Togus, Maine. They will help the office identify best practices for adjudicating fully developed disability claims, and will also train Legion service officers assigned to work there.
American Legion Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation Division staff are spending May 13-15 at the Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office in Togus, Maine. They will help the office identify best practices for adjudicating fully developed disability claims, and will also train Legion service officers assigned to work there.
The Legion is submitting testimony for the record for, as well as attending, today’s Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs hearing on pending health care legislation.
