The VA memo exempts roughly three-quarters of the Veterans Health Administration's roughly 400,000-employee workforce.
Florida Senator Rick Scott, alongside Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jerry Moran (R-KS) and House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost (R-IL), introduced the bipartisan Restore VA Accountability Act aimed at strengthening the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) ability to discipline and remove underperforming employees.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs for delays in paying veterans millions of dollars in medical co-payment refunds and for not having a plan to
Punishing underperforming VA workers was a priority during Trump's first term. Congressional leaders want to zero in on the problem again.
Lawmakers are making the fast-track firing bill a legislative priority in a new session of Congress as the incoming Trump administration proposes similar goals.
In one of their first concrete actions of the new congressional session, the chairmen of the committees that oversee the Department of Veterans Affairs introduced a bill aimed at making it easier to fire bad VA employees.
WASHINGTON (TNND) — Doug Collins, President Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, promised Tuesday that the agency would not assist with migrant healthcare under his leadership.
House Ag Committee Chair Glenn "GT" Thompson speaks to the crowd in a Holstein print bowtie at the ag inaugural ball Jan. 20 The House Agriculture Committee on Thursday released its subcommittee assignments for the new Congress.
Doug Collins testified before the U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs committee for his confirmation hearing to become the next Veterans Affairs Secretary.
I have been following a report since July of last year about an issue at five Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) hospitals that included our local Mountain Home VA, located
Snow, hail and rain were present in Washington, D.C., Sunday, but that didn’t stop Southern Illinois residents from making the trek to the nation’s capital for President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
Former Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, a former Air Force Reserve chaplain, a veteran of the Iraq War and says he wants to improve veterans' services.