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During Phil Roe's Tenure, the VA Budget Nearly Tripled. But He Still Fears It Isn't Enough In this July 17, 2018, file photo, House Veterans Affairs Chair Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., speaks during a subcommittee hearing about the Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) 17 Dec 2020 During his 12 years in Congress, Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., has seen the Department of Veterans Affairs' budget balloon from $94 billion in 2008 to $240 billion this year. But as he prepares to retire, he has lingering doubts about how well the money ...

By STEVE BEYNON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 17, 2020 WASHINGTON — A mammoth veterans bill approved by Congress on Wednesday increases legal protections for GI Bill benefits and aims to further scrutinize schools with a history of taking advantage of beneficiaries. A key provision would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to analyze whether schools facing legal or punitive actions from the government should be cut off from GI Bill money, a critical protection clause that has been lobbied for by advocates for more than a decade. Carrie Wofford, president of the advocacy ...

Congress finalizes sweeping veterans policy bill with new protections for women, students December 16, 2020 Sailors assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton in Washington receive information on GI Bill benefits during a college fair on Feb. 20, 2020. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Haydn N. Smith/Navy) House lawmakers on Wednesday finalized a massive, sweeping veterans policy measure which includes new protections for student veterans, new aid for veterans hurt by the ongoing pandemic and long sought-after improvements to VA services aimed at women vete...

Fri, 12/11/2020 - 3:42pm admin U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill.has been elected by his House Republican colleagues to serve as the lead Republican on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee. The committee works to set the party’s agenda on veterans issues and leading oversight efforts of the administration.  Should Republicans gain the majority in Congress in the next election, Bost would be in line to become the chairman of the full committee. Bost represents the 12th Congressional District in Southern Illinois. Union County is in the district.  “As a Marine and th...

Ongoing issues at v.a., this is to be kind of a train wreck, that's what phil roe said, committee of veterans affairs, you have folks who cannot make their house payments or rental payments because of this. how is this -- how is this happening? >> look, as a recipient of the g.i. bill, this actually also happened to me as a younger man. and once in a while i just did not get my payment. >> wow. >> and luckily i had a school that was very lenient and they understood and they gave me some time till i got paid. but what happens right now, the president is not focused on the vfrmt a.. the v.a. is ...