Thursday Hearing Will Review Legislation Important to Veterans
The hearing will be held Thursday, June 23, in room 418 of the Russell Senate Office Building, starting at 10 a.m. It will be webcast live on the committee's website, located at http://veterans.senate.gov. It may also be audiocast on C-SPAN'S hearing's website, located at http://www.capitolhearings.org.
The legislation to be reviewed includes:
S. 1234
S. 1235
S. 552
S. 917
S. 1252
S. 151
S. 423
S. 551
S. 909
S. 1138
S. 1259
S.
_____ (Senator Murray), the "Prisoner of War Benefits Act of 2005." (Senator Salazar), the "Veterans Employment and Transition Services Act" (Senator Allen), a bill to authorize the placement of a monument in Arlington National Cemetery honoring the veterans who fought in World War II as members of Army Ranger Battalions (Senator Dodd), a bill to expand eligibility for government markers for marked graves of veterans at private cemeteries (Senator Allard), a bill to direct VA to establish a national cemetery in the Colorado Springs, Colorado, metropolitan area (Senator Santorum), a bill to make a stillborn child an insurable dependent for purposes of the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance program (Senator Coleman), the "Veterans Benefits Outreach Act of 2005" (Ranking Member Akaka), the "Disabled Veterans Insurance Improvement Act of 2005" (Ranking Member Akaka), a bill to make permanent the pilot program of direct housing loans for Native American veterans (Ranking Member Akaka), a bill to make technical corrections to the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2004 (Chairman Craig), the "Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act of 2005 " (Chairman Craig), the "Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2005"Those presenting testimony at the hearing will include officials from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as representatives from various veterans' service organizations. A full witness list will be issued later this week.
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