Witness List for Thursday's Hearing
June 22, 2005
Contact: Jeff Schrade 202-224-9093
(Washington, DC) On Thursday, June 23, in room 418 of the Russell Senate Office Building, the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs will hold a hearing on 12 legislative bills now before the committee. It will begin at 10 a.m. and be webcast live on the committee's website. 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. 1271
(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"Witnesses at the hearing will include:
Panel I (Department of Veterans Affairs)
The Honorable Daniel L. Cooper, Under Secretary for Benefits, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, accompanied by ?
- Mr. Richard A. Wannemacher, Jr., Acting Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs; and
- Mr. John H. Thompson, Deputy General Counsel.
Panel II (Veterans Service Organizations)
- Steve Smithson, Assistant Director, Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation, The American Legion
- Quentin Kinderman, Deputy Director, National Legislative Service, Veterans of Foreign Wars
- Rick Surratt, Deputy National Legislative Director, Disabled American Veterans
- Carl Blake, Associate National Legislative Director, Paralyzed Veterans of America
- Richard Jones, National Legislative Director, AMVETS
