09.20.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
-
Today,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(CA-41)
released
the
following
statement
after
the
Department
of
Veterans
Affairs
released
their
new
data
detailing
suicide
rates
among
veterans
in
2017.
"As
Chairman
of
the
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs,
I've
made
addressing
veteran
suicide
my
top
priority--
but
these
numbers
make
it
clear
we're
not
doing
enough.
This
new
data
reaffirms
the
urgent
need
for
Americans
to
immediately
act
to
address
… Read More
09.20.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
DC
-
Today,
two
years
after
Hurricane
Maria
devastated
the
U.S.
Virgin
Islands
and
Puerto
Rico,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(D-Calif.)
continued
to
call
on
VA
to
strengthen
disaster
preparedness
and
emergency
response
efforts
and
guarantee
that
no
veteran
is
left
without
a
plan
in
the
event
of
a
natural
disaster.
VA
has
a
responsibility
to
ensure
they
care
for
the
more
than
90,000
veterans
who
live
on
these
islands
during
a
natural
disaster.
But
in
… Read More
09.18.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
-
Today,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(CA-41)
delivered
opening
remarks
before
the
full
committee
oversight
hearing
entitled
"How
Barriers
To
Hiring
At
VA
Affect
Patient
Care
And
Access."
Additionally,
the
Committee
reauthorized
the
Women
Veterans
Task
Force
chaired
by
Congresswoman
Julia
Brownley.
Below
is
a
link
to
the
video
of
the
Chairman's
opening
statement
and
his
remarks
as
prepared:
Good
afternoon.
I
call
this
hearing
to
order.
Today's
… Read More
09.13.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
-
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(D-CA)
and
Senate
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Ranking
Member
Jon
Tester
(D-MT)
applauded
this
week's
federal
court
ruling
in
Wolfe
v.
Wilkie,
which
found
the
Department
of
Veterans
Affairs
(VA)
unlawfully
denied
payment
for
hundreds
of
thousands
of
veterans
whose
other
health
insurance
did
not
fully
cover
emergency
care
they
received
at
non-VA
facilities.
Chairman
Takano
and
Ranking
Member
Tester
today
urged
VA
to
… Read More
09.11.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
DC
-
Today,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(D-Calif.)
joined
volunteers
at
the
'Carry
the
Load'
Day
of
Service
at
the
Alexandria
National
Cemetery
to
thank
those
who
spent
the
day
remembering
those
we've
lost
since
9/11
by
cleaning
the
cemetery
headstones
and
grounds.
Full
text
of
Chairman
Takano's
remarks
below:
Good
morning--
thank
you
for
inviting
me
here
this
morning
on
this
somber
day.
First,
I
want
to
take
a
moment
to
recognize
Colonel
Danny
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09.10.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
DC
-
Today,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(D-California)
and
Subcommittee
on
Oversight
&
Investigations
Chair
Chris
Pappas
(D-New
Hampshire)
announced
a
subcommittee
hearing
this
fall
to
address
credentialing,
privileging,
and
reporting
after
troubling
allegations
of
incidents
at
VA
facilities
in
Arkansas
and
West
Virginia.
"The
shocking
reports
from
West
Virginia
and
Arkansas
call
into
question
whether
VA
is
equipped
to
identify
clinicians
who
are
… Read More
09.10.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
DC
-
Today,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(D-Calif.)
released
the
following
statement
after
the
Department
of
Veterans'
Affairs
decided
to
break
with
the
California
State
Approving
Agency
for
Veterans
Education
(CSAAVE)
tasked
with
looking
for
fraud,
waste,
and
abuse
at
institutions
that
enroll
student
veterans.
"I
am
concerned
by
the
Department
of
Veterans'
Affairs
decision
to
not
offer
a
cooperative
agreement
with
the
California
State
Approving
Agency
… Read More
09.01.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
DC
-
Today,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(D-Calif.)
released
the
following
video
statement
to
mark
the
beginning
of
National
Suicide
Prevention
Awareness
month
and
reiterate
his
call
for
a
VA
wide
stand-down
to
address
the
crisis
of
veteran
suicide.
Full
text
of
the
video
statement
below:
I
am
Congressman
Mark
Takano,
Chairman
of
the
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs.
Today
marks
the
beginning
of
National
Suicide
Prevention
Awareness
Month--
and
… Read More
08.23.19 •
Press Release
RIVERSIDE,
CA
-
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(D-Calif.)
today
issued
the
statement
below
following
reports
of
multiple
suspicious
deaths
at
the
Louis
A.
Johnson
VA
Medical
Center
in
Clarksburg,
West
Virginia:
"To
think
that
veterans
may
have
been
victims
of
cruel
and
evil
criminal
behavior
is
incredibly
disturbing.
If
VA
was
aware,
it
must
hold
supervisors
accountable
for
failing
to
protect
veterans
and
must
take
decisive
action
now
to
prevent
such
appalling
… Read More
08.23.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
DC
-
Today,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(D-Calif.)
issued
the
following
statement
after
the
VA
Office
of
Inspector
General
(IG)
released
a
report
on
the
tragic
veteran
suicide
at
the
West
Palm
Beach
VA
Medical
Center
in
March
2019.
"After
3
suicides
on
VA
property
in
5
days
in
April,
I
directed
this
Committee
to
address
the
national
crisis
of
veteran
suicide
and
made
it
this
Committee's
top
priority.
We
took
immediate
steps,
held
hearings,
and
… Read More
08.21.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
DC
-
Today,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(D-Cali.)
issued
the
following
statement
after
President
Trump
announced
a
memorandum
discharging
the
student
debt
of
totally
and
permanently
disabled
veterans.
"Disabled
veterans
have
given
more
than
their
fair
share
in
service
to
our
country--
they
should
be
recognized
for
their
sacrifice.
While
today's
announcement
is
laudable,
it
is
frustrating
that
the
Administration
and
Secretary
DeVos
have
dragged
their
… Read More
08.12.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
-
Senate
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Ranking
Member
Jon
Tester
(D-MT),
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(D-CA),
Senate
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Member
Senator
Jerry
Moran
(R-KS),
and
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Ranking
Member
Dr.
Phil
Roe
led
a
bipartisan,
bicameral
letter
to
VA
today
following
a
damning
report
from
the
Office
of
Inspector
General
(OIG)
outlining
errors
in
VA's
processing
of
non-VA
emergency
care
claims.
The
OIG
found
… Read More
07.24.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
-
Today,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(CA-41)
delivered
opening
remarks
before
the
full
committee
oversight
hearing
entitled
"True
Transparency?
Assessing
Wait
Times
Five
Years
after
Phoenix"
to
address
VA's
"secret
wait
lists"
on
the
fifth
anniversary
of
an
HVAC
hearing
on
the
Phoenix
VA
wait
time
scandal.
Below
is
a
link
to
the
video
of
the
Chairman's
opening
statement
and
his
remarks
as
prepared:
Good
morning.
I
call
this
hearing
to
… Read More
07.23.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
-
Today,
the
House
of
Representatives
passed
all
three
bills
brought
to
the
floor
by
the
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
to
deliver
clear
results
for
veterans
by
extending
the
Women's
Health
Transition
Training
program,
requiring
VA
to
provide
materials
in
Spanish
and
Tagalog,
and
making
key
improvements
to
the
specially
adapted
housing
(SAH)
grant
program.
Full
list
of
passed
legislation:
1.H.R.
2942,
(Rep.
Cisneros)
To
direct
the
Secretary
of
Veterans
Affairs
to
carry
… Read More
07.23.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
-
Today,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
and
many
Democratic
members
of
the
Committee
released
a
letter,
sent
to
VA
Secretary
Robert
Wilkie,
questioning
VA's
decision
not
to
decide
any
claims
for
Blue
Water
Navy
Vietnam
veterans
until
January
2020.
In
their
letter,
Members
wrote
that
while
H.R.
299,
the
Blue
Water
Navy
Vietnam
Veterans
Act
of
2019,
gives
VA
the
ability
to
stay
Blue
Water
claims,
"we
have
questions
about
the
decision
to
stay
all
claims
… Read More
07.22.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
-
Today,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
released
the
following
statement
after
the
Committee's
Congressional
Delegation
to
Puerto
Rico
this
past
weekend:
"After
several
reports,
from
both
my
staff
and
the
media,
surfaced
alleging
that
VA
may
not
be
prepared
for
the
next
hurricane,
we
travelled
to
Puerto
Rico
to
learn
from
VA
and
hear
from
some
of
the
90,000
veteran
survivors
of
Hurricane
Maria
first
hand.
Unfortunately,
this
visit
confirmed
many
of
… Read More
07.17.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
-
On
Friday,
July
19,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(D-Cali.)
will
lead
a
Congressional
Delegation
to
the
VA
Medical
Center
in
San
Juan,
Puerto
Rico
to
meet
with
VA
leadership,
VSO
leaders,
and
veterans
themselves
to
see
first
hand
how
well
the
island,
and
VA
specifically,
is
prepared
for
the
next
natural
disaster.
"Despite
San
Juan
VA
leadership
indicating
that
'no
one
is
more
prepared'
to
support
veterans
during
and
after
Hurricane
Maria,
our
… Read More
07.15.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
-
The
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
is
pleased
to
announce
the
launch
of
its
new
website,
veterans.house.gov,
featuring
an
updated
design
that
will
help
veterans
and
their
families
stay
up-to-date
with
the
Committee's
activities,
as
well
as
provide
them
with
valuable
Committee
and
Department
of
Veterans'
Affairs
resources.
The
Committee
is
working
to
serve
the
next
generation
of
veterans,
but
we
know
the
demographic
profile
of
our
nation's
veterans
is
changing
… Read More
07.11.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
DC
-
Today,
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
(D-Cali.)
issued
the
following
statement
after
today's
roundtable
on
medicinal
cannabis
research:
"Cannabis
must
be
objectively
researched.
Period.
That's
why
we
came
together
today
with
experts,
researchers,
and
veterans
to
discuss
the
best
bipartisan
path
forward
for
VA
sponsored
medicinal
cannabis
research.
I
want
to
make
sure
any
research
legislation
this
Committee
votes
on
is
not
written
to
achieve
one
… Read More
06.26.19 •
Press Release
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
-
Today,
the
House
Committee
on
Veterans'
Affairs
Chairman
Mark
Takano
and
Ranking
Member
Dr.
Phil
Roe
issued
the
following
statement
after
the
Blue
Water
Navy
Vietnam
Veterans
Act
of
2019,
H.R.
299,
was
officially
signed
into
law:
"Today,
we
are
proud
to
say
that
the
tens
of
thousands
of
Blue
Water
Navy
veterans
can
rest
easy
tonight
knowing
that
the
benefits
that
they
earned
while
serving
off
the
coasts
of
Vietnam
will
be
guaranteed.
The
Blue
Water
Navy
Vietnam
Veterans
Act
… Read More
