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November 19, 2025
Blumenthal Ramirez Lead Legislative Push to Protect VA Worker Rights Lawmakers Right to Representation for VA Workers Act will codify essential labor rights for VA employees in response to violations by the Trump...2025 WASHINGTON D C Continuing their efforts to protect the rights of Department of Veterans Affairs VA employees U S Senator Richard Blumenthal D CT Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Ranking Member and...Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member introduced the Right to Representation for VA Workers Act legislation to restore VA employees right to have their choice of representation in inquiries with other Department...
January 24, 2025
Home Ranking Member Minority News Blumenthal Statement on VA Hiring Freeze Exemptions Blumenthal Only a clear unequivocal statement to exempt all VA employees from the hiring freeze will reassure me and veterans...Blumenthal D CT today released a statement on the announcement that certain Department of Veterans Affairs VA employees would be exempt from the federal hiring freeze issued by President Trump on Monday These...from Blumenthal this week urging the Administration to address the VA hiring freeze at a Committee hearing on Tuesday at VA Secretary nominee Doug Collins nomination markup and in a letter sent to President...
November 1, 2024
Twitter Minority News Home Ranking Member Minority News Tester Pushes VA to Publish Rule Change for Veteran Caregivers In a letter to VA Tester calls for publication of a proposed rule to change eligibility...Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester is calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs VA to publish a pending Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers PCAFC proposed rule...encourage VA to make appropriate modifications to the eligibility criteria of PCAFC by the end of 2023 In his letter to VA Secretary Denis McDonough Tester wrote At that time I encouraged VA to ensure...
June 26, 2024
Ranking Member Minority News Tester Pushes VA for Updates on its First Research Site in Montana Senator led the effort to press VA to establish its first VA research site in Montana to improve veterans...care Montana was one of three states without a VA Research Site Wednesday June 26 2024 Big Sandy Mont Continuing his efforts to push for the delivery of a VA research site in Montana U S Senator Jon Tester...Veterans Affairs VA for updates on the status of its research site in Montana Last month VA granted the VA Montana Health Care System approval to establish a VA research site in Montana its first VA research site...
October 9, 2025
Member Minority News Blumenthal Takano Colleagues Blast Secretary Collins for Politicizing Key Veteran Services During Shutdown Lawmakers call out Trump VA for needlessly weaponizing the government shutdown...D CA are leading a group of Committee members today to call out Department of Veterans Affairs VA Secretary Doug Collins for weaponizing the government shutdown and artificially ending communications with...Veterans Affairs VA with multi year funding which ensures a government shutdown has minimal impact on veterans health care and benefits the lawmakers wrote in a letter to VA Secretary Collins That is why...
October 25, 2024
Facebook Twitter Majority News Home Chairman Majority News Moran Kansas Veterans may be Impacted by VA Electronic System Failure Friday October 25 2024 WASHINGTON D C U S Senator Jerry Moran R Kan ranking...Committee was alerted by the Department of Veterans Affairs VA of a problem with an electronic fax system that resulted in 875 files sent to the VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System from community care providers...I have asked VA to quickly review every file and take all appropriate actions to mitigate patient harm that has or may result from this system failure said Sen Moran I have also asked VA to quickly review...
January 23, 2025
Minority News Home Ranking Member Minority News Blumenthal Senate Democrats Demand Trump Exempt All VA Employees from Hiring Freeze Thursday January 23 2025 WASHINGTON D C Senate Veterans Affairs Committee...on President Trump to put veterans first and immediately exempt all Department of Veterans Affairs VA employees from the hiring freeze he issued on Monday In a letter to Trump Blumenthal and the Senators...desperately need wrote Blumenthal and the Senators It could also delay or deny various other services across VA from burial services to job training to assistance for homeless veterans to life saving assistance...
March 24, 2025
Member Minority News Blumenthal Announces Series of Shadow Hearings to Highlight Harm of Trump VA Directives VA Committee s top Democrat to lead shadow hearings with impacted stakeholders to examine the impact...Affairs VA care and benefits He is organizing the hearings with Committee Democratic members over the next few weeks to highlight the impact of the Trump Administration s policies on veterans and VA He has...has invited VA Secretary Doug Collins to the first shadow hearing on Wednesday April 2nd along with other stakeholders to examine the Administration s mass firings and their impacts on veterans Congress...
August 28, 2024
Twitter Minority News Home Ranking Member Minority News Tester Presses VA Montana to Improve Care for Native Veterans Tester calls on VA Montana to prioritize delivering culturally competent health care for...is pressing VA Montana leadership to improve its delivery of culturally competent health care to Native American veterans in Montana I write today to encourage Montana VA Health Care System VA Montana leadership...Tribes and veterans across Montana wrote Senator Tester in a letter to VA Montana Executive Director Duane Gill Tester highlighted steps VA has made in recent years to increase Native veterans access to their...
November 14, 2025
Bipartisan Bill to Restore VA Employees Collective Bargaining Rights Lawmakers aim to restore VA employees labor rights following the Trump Administration s illegal nullification of VA contracts with unions...protect Department of Veterans Affairs VA employees collective bargaining rights in response to the Trump Administration s cancellation of union contracts for 80 of VA employees We must erase Trump s unlawful...unlawful executive orders restricting VA workers rights to collective bargaining said Ranking Member Blumenthal VA worker rights are essential to imposing proper oversight and scrutiny and providing veterans...
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