by Mark Wasserbauer | Oct 8, 2015 | Legislative
By Joe Gould 4:10 p.m. EDT October 7, 2015 WASHINGTON — The US Senate voted Wednesday to approve the 2016 defense policy bill, but President Obama is expected to veto it because of language supporting a workaround that funds defense using the overseas contingency...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Oct 8, 2015 | Legislative, National Guard, Technician
Congress passed a 3-month Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the Federal Government through December. Between now and the deadline, Speaker Boehner will step down as Speaker of the House of Representatives and a new Speaker (likely Representative Kevin McCarthy R-CA)...
by jharris.msy@gmail.com | Sep 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Spc. Alek Skarlatos, an infantryman with the Oregon Army National Guard, was awarded the Soldier’s Medal last week at the Pentagon for his actions last month in subduing a gunman on a European train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. His childhood friend, Airman...
by jharris.msy@gmail.com | Sep 23, 2015 | National
The National Commission on the Future of the Army will soon focus on the issue of where to put the Army’s AH-64 Apache helicopters and one commissioner hopes it will find a “blended capability” solution, according to a report this week by Inside...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Sep 21, 2015 | Legislative
Last Friday, Congressman John Kline introduced H.R. 3549 – VA Billing Accountability Act. H.R. 3549 provides the Secretary of the VA the authority to waive the requirement a veteran make a co-payment if a VA error is the cause of a delay in notifying a veteran of a...
by jharris.msy@gmail.com | Sep 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Over 400,000 military households’ DEERS records do not have all their families’ social security numbers. If they don’t add them before January they could owe fines through the IRS due to requirements in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare.) DEERS say they are missing...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Sep 5, 2015 | Legislative, News
From the Office of Congressman John Kline (2nd District – MN) Knowing of your support for an efficient VA that serves our veterans, I wanted to ensure you saw that Congressman John Kline plans to introduce legislation in the near future to protect veterans from...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Sep 5, 2015 | Veterans
By Mark Brunswick Star Tribune September 1, 2015 — 5:53pm Minnesota’s congressional delegation, led by Rep. John Kline, is fighting a Veterans Affairs directive that found veterans suddenly being billed for co-payments that were as much as five years old. Recently,...
by jharris.msy@gmail.com | Sep 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
From the Tricare Website: http://www.tricare.mil/rxnewrules090115 Starting October 1, 2015, a new law requires all TRICARE beneficiaries, except active duty service members, to get select brand name maintenance drugs through either TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery or...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Sep 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
(TRNS) – Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.) plans to introduce legislation when the House returns from recess in next month to halt “untimely billing practices” by the Department of Veterans Affairs, keeping the VA from belatedly charging veterans for medical care received...
