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SOURCE: veterans.senate.gov Washington, D.C. . . . Today, the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, chaired by Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), approved comprehensive legislation to help veterans find jobs, simplify and improve the Post-9/11 GI Bill, get disabled veterans accurate [...] Read More

SOURCE: usps.com/news Cash Shortfall Likely in 2011; Customer Service Scores Remain High Washington, D.C. . . . The U.S. Postal Service ended the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 (April 1 – June 30) with a net loss of $3.5 [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.lautenberg.senate.gov Senator Concerned Thousands Of Troops Are Not Aware Of Eligibility For Bonus Washington, D.C. . . . U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) has called on the Department of Defense to outline its efforts to reach out the [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov Funds Will Support Programs To Train Nurses, Geriatric Specialists, And Improve The Performance And Recruitment Of Underrepresented Minority Students HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today will announce $159.1 million in grants to health care workforce training programs.  These grants [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.whitehouse.gov Memorandum For The Assistant To The President And Chief Of Staff, The Heads Of Executive Departments And Agencies At a time when so many American families are struggling to make ends meet, I am committed to making sure [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov Washington, D.C. . . . As part of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki’s efforts to streamline access to benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has removed the signature requirement for Veterans who electronically submit an [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.tester.senate.gov Senator Pushed To Keep Vital Service For Rural America Washington, D.C. . . . . The Senate panel that overseas the budget of the U.S. Postal Service will not consider cutting mail delivery to five days per week, [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.army.mil/hprrsp Washington, D.C., July 29, 2010 . . . The Army today released the Health Promotion, Risk Reduction and Suicide Prevention (HP/RP/PC) Report, the result of a focused 15-month effort to better understand the increasing rate of suicides in [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov Washington, D.C. . . . The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has approved $2.8 million to fund three new research projects that focus on testing or developing treatments for illnesses affecting Veterans who served in the Gulf War [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov Washington . . . The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced two key steps in the process of partnering with states and other stakeholders to begin establishing health insurance Exchanges.  HHS announced the availability of [...] Read More