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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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
October 29, 2024
Ranking Member Minority News Following Tester Takano Blumenthal Push VA Moves to Cover K 2 Veterans Sickened by Uranium Radiation VA answers lawmaker s calls to use the PACT Act to ensure veterans stationed...Member Mark Takano D Calif and U S Senator Richard Blumenthal D Conn the Department of Veterans Affairs VA announced it has begun an expedited process to expand the presumptive conditions associated with service...at the Karshi Khanabad K 2 Air Base in Uzbekistan receive the benefits they have earned To do this VA plans to publish a federal register notice with the intent of establishing service connected presumptive...
February 11, 2026
Skyrocketing Cost of VA Community Care at Hearing Blumenthal also stressed the importance of ensuring community care providers are held to the same quality and training standards as VA health care professionals...provided when the Department of Veterans Affairs VA is unable to deliver health care to veterans in an accessible or timely manner Blumenthal pressed VA Chief Financial Officer Richard Topping on the disproportionate...increase for community care relative to VA direct care Since 2019 the funding for the VA community care program has increased from 9 billion to more than 48 billion in the VA fiscal year 2026 request That s an...
January 23, 2025
News Home Ranking Member Minority News Blumenthal Stresses Concerns with VA Hiring Freeze Ahead of Vote to Advance VA Secretary Nominee Doug Collins Thursday January 23 2025 WASHINGTON D C U S Senator...Collins nominee to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs out of Committee During his remarks Blumenthal stressed his concerns about a hiring freeze at the Department of Veterans Affairs VA issued by President...to working with Collins to address this issue I m going to support Doug Collins to be our next VA Secretary I was impressed by many of his answers and commitments to continue the forward progress for our...
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