04.26.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN), alongside Representatives Lou Correa (D-CA) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), welcomed national veterans service organizations and research advocacy groups to a roundtable in support of H.R. 5520, the VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2018. Over 20 organizations have endorsed the bill.
The legislation will authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to advance scientific and medical research
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04.25.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN) released the following statement:
“In light of the serious allegations brought to the attention of the U.S. Senate against Adm. Ronny Jackson by more than 20 of his military colleagues, I am urging Adm. Jackson to remove himself as the nominee to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs,” said Rep. Walz.
“Not only does Adm. Jackson lack the management experience necessary to successfully lead the
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04.18.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN) released the following statement:
“President Trump’s naming of a profoundly inexperienced campaign staffer accused of sexual harassment to serve as VA’s Chief Information Officer is disturbing, unacceptable, and another sad illustration of this Administration’s disregard for our nation’s veterans” said Rep. Walz, the highest ranking enlisted servicemember ever to serve in Congress. “At a time of
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04.17.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN) and Chairman Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN) introduced H.R. 5520, the VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2018, to authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to advance scientific and medical research into the safety and efficacy of medicinal cannabis usage by veterans with diagnoses such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and chronic pain. Upon introduction, the legislation was cosponsored by
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04.11.18 • Press Release
Washington, D.C. - Today, Reps. Phil Roe, M.D. (R-Tenn.) and Tim Walz (D-Minn.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, respectively, announced the committee’s first-ever bipartisan member day to give members of Congress the opportunity to testify before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs about veterans issues in their districts.
“Since I’ve served as Chairman, I’ve traveled around the country to conduct oversight at VA facilities and hear directly
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04.04.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN) released the following statement:
“We need to get back to the work of serving veterans. I don’t know a lot about Admiral Jackson, but I know he has a lot of work to do following the chaos and dysfunction President Trump has created at the VA,” said Rep. Walz, the highest ranking enlisted servicemember ever to serve in Congress. “The stakes are high and Admiral Jackson must put veterans first,
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03.26.18 • Press Release
Washington DC - Congressman Lou Correa (CA-46) and House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Tim Walz (MN-01) called for funding to research the safety and effectiveness of medical cannabis in treating veterans diagnosed with PTSD and chronic pain.
Rep. Lou Correa said, “It is imperative to the health and safety of our veterans that we find alternative treatments for chronic pain and service-related injuries. Throughout my district, I meet veterans who depend on cannabis to manage
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03.07.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN) released the following statement after the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report detailing critical and systemic deficiencies at the Washington, D.C. VA Medical Center:
“The findings detailed in OIG’s report are indicative of a complete and total failure on the part of D.C. VA’s leadership that led to a culture of complacency that put veterans
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03.06.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON - Today, Ranking Members of the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees Representative Tim Walz (D-Minn.) and Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.) issued the following statement after they sent a letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) requesting that the Administration provide any documents relating to the establishment of the partnership between VA and Cohen Veterans Network (CVN) as well as answers to eleven specific questions in the letter.
“The nature of the
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02.28.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN) released the following statement after receiving an update from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Inspector General Michael Missal on the Office of Inspector General (OIG) review of recent allegations of “hacking” or other deceptive practices relating to former VA Chief of Staff Vivieca Wright Simpson’s VA email account:
“Earlier this month, I referred to OIG and DOJ allegations made by VA
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02.16.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN) released the following statement:
“The reports made in the New York Times and the Washington Post in the last 24 hours confirm what many of us in the veterans community have long speculated: that the Koch brothers and corporate interests are at the center of an effort to take over and privatize VA to make money. This behavior is disturbing, represents the worst of Washington politics, and must be
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02.15.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN), sent the following letter to Attorney General Jefferson Sessions urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review allegations made by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Dr. David Shulkin suggesting his chief of staff’s email may have been hacked:
The Honorable Jefferson Sessions
Attorney General
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530
Dear Mr.
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02.14.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Jon Tester, D-Mont., chairman and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and U.S. Representatives Phil Roe, R-Tenn., and Tim Walz, D-Minn., chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, today released the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Inspector General’s (IG) report on travel by VA Secretary David Shulkin and other VA officials to Europe in July
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02.06.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Julia Brownley (D-CA) released the following statement after the full Committee met in open session to discuss the status of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers.
“When President Obama signed into law the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010, our nation took a major step forward in providing care and benefits
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01.30.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN) released the following statement following President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress:
“Since President Trump has taken office, he has not been the champion for veterans he promised to be,” said Rep. Walz, the highest ranking enlisted servicemember ever to serve in Congress.
“During the 2016 presidential election, President Trump made service to veterans a central pillar
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01.30.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN) gave the following opening statement as the Committee met in open session to conduct an oversight hearing examining the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) implementation of the PL 115-55, Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017.
Ranking Member Walz Opening Statement As Prepared For Delivery
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act
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01.17.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN) gave the following opening statement as the Committee met in open session to conduct an oversight hearing on the replacement Denver VA Medical Facility.
Ranking Member Walz Opening Statement As Prepared For Delivery
Veterans have been waiting over 15 years for a replacement VA hospital and now it finally appears that Colorado veterans will have a state of the art facility this summer. We are
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01.16.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN), released the following statement after he and four other Democratic members of the committee sent a letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Dr. David Shulkin to clarify and reiterate their October 26 request for VA to begin research into medical cannabis and for VA to specify any and all barriers to VA-led research into medical cannabis. Today’s letter was sent in response to VA’s
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01.09.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN), released the following statement after President Trump signed an executive order on veteran mental healthcare and suicide prevention.
“When dealing with mental healthcare for veterans and combating the epidemic of veteran suicide, there is absolutely no room for partisanship,” said Rep. Walz, the highest ranking enlisted servicemember ever to serve in Congress. “I have long been a proponent of
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01.04.18 • Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN), released the following statement following news reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to instruct the Department of Justice (DOJ) to crackdown on states that have legalized recreational and medical cannabis. The news comes at the same time as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) decision to allow VA doctors to discuss medical cannabis with veteran patients:
“I am glad to see VA
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