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N.Y. Senate Bills Support Military

NEW YORK— Senator Patrick M. Gallivan reported that the New York State Senate has passed a package of bills in order to support current and active military service members. These 29 bills passed give protection to active duty soldiers and veterans as well as memorial sites and cemeteries along with adding funding to previously cut […]

The Man with the Stolen Name

Along with information on visas and travel advisories, the US State Department’s website has a page featuring three mugshots and a mystery. The pictures portray one man. In the first, a line is shaved into his hair and a small gold hoop juts out of the left ear. That was in style on June 24, […]

Congress Wants Review of Children Abused on Bases

Congress has asked its watchdog agency to investigate the Pentagon’s handling of child-on-child sex assaults on U.S. military bases following reporting by The Associated Press that detailed how failures of justice leave victims with little support and offenders little consequence. The AP’s investigation , which documented nearly 700 cases worldwide over 10 years, has prompted […]

Debate Expected on Vouchers for Military Families

The bill would allow military families to receive funding from federal impact aid to create education savings accounts that they could use to pay for private school tuition, preschool or even college. There’s a political battle brewing on Capitol Hill over a proposal to allow military families to use a portion of federal aid awarded […]

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Connecticut Extends Benefits to “Less Than Honorable”

HARTFORD — The General Assembly approved a bill Tuesday night that would allow veterans given other than honorable discharges for mental-health reasons, to become eligible for health services and educational support from which they are currently prohibited. More than 800 veterans now could be eligible for state benefits, according to the Connecticut Chapter of Iraq […]

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Veterans Sue to Block Appointment of Acting Secretary

Washington, D.C. — On behalf of veterans in Arizona and Washington, D.C., and in conjunction with the veterans group, VoteVets, Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit today challenging President Trump’s unlawful appointment of Robert Wilkie as Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs. By bypassing Deputy Secretary Thomas Bowman, who White House officials described as an obstructionist to […]

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DeVos Hit With Backlash Over Military Vouchers

As an institution, the military has historically been an unlikely laboratory for progressive policy experiments, though it’s helped pioneer state-run universal child care, socialized medicine, universal access to higher education, and mandatory race and gender desegregation. But now it’s fast becoming a petri dish for a conservative dream: school privatization. Read More

Pentagon Will Decide If Ronny Jackson Will Face Investigation

The Pentagon’s investigative arm has started to examine the matter involving Ronny L. Jackson, the Navy rear admiral whose nomination to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs collapsed last week amid allegations he mistreated White House medical staffers and improperly dispensed medications, among other accusations. Tom Crosson, a Defense Department spokesman, said Monday that the […]

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Senator Wants Educators to Warn Students of For-Profit Risks

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is asking educators for help in warning students about the risks associated with for-profit colleges. The senator is asking principals, counselors, and teachers to provide students with “accurate and up-to-date information about their post-secondary education options” Read More

House Members Advocate for Some Defense Personnel Reforms

Though the Pentagon isn’t ready yet for a full overhaul of major personnel policy, House lawmakers still want to try to move on some of the more pressing recruitment and retention challenges the department faces in this year’s defense authorization act. Last year’s defense authorization act required the Pentagon to complete a full review of the authorities […]

Democratic Leaders Oppose Privatizing Impact Aid to Schools

WASHINGTON– Today, all 17 Democratic Members of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and all 24 Democratic Members of the Committee on Armed Services, sent a letter to Chairwoman Virginia Foxx and Chairman Mac Thornberry expressing strong opposition to the inclusion H.R. 5199, the Education Savings Accounts for Military Families, or any school voucher […]

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Report: Ronny Jackson Confirmation Hearing Postponed

Ronny Jackson, the White House physician and rear admiral, who has been tapped to replace fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, was scheduled to testify before the Senate Committee Wednesday, but the top politicians have postponed the hearing, according to The Washington Post. Most of the concern comes from Jackson’s ability to lead the troubled […]

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