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Fixing the VA and VBA: An Ongoing Campaign

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- Following a string of successes ranging from PTSD to expanded Agent Orange presumtives, the fight to creating new veteran-friendly agencies continues. Faster than...

Politico: Senate Committee Laying Groundwork to Gut 1991 Agent Orange Law

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- Veterans Affairs Secy. Eric Shinseki strongly defended his controversial decision last year to add ischemic heart disease. Former VA Secy.  (2001-05) and current Pfizer...

Updated -Give ’em Hell, General Shinseki!

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- Update: See VA defends Agent Orange, heart disease links against Sen Webb.  WATCH LIVE as we hope VA Secretary Shinseki tells the bureaucrats Senators Webb...

Vets Group Says Move Forward Fast on Agent Orange Presumptives

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- Veterans for Common Sense thanks VA Secretary Shinseki for moving forward with presumptives for Vietnam War veterans - Via Veterans for Common Sense  Veterans for Common...

VA Senate Comm Hearing Thursday Draws Attention as Cuts in Veterans’...

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- Hearing Thursday (September 23) United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs Oversight Hearing:  VA Disability Compensation:  Presumptive Disability Decision-Making. VA Secretary Shinseki should publicly blast...

$300 million for Agent Orange fund

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Agent Orange and related toxic chemicals are nothing but bad--decades after use. Sens. Webb and Akaka, are you listening? Action plan addresses toxic legacy of...

Tell Sen. Webb: Support Declaring Presumptive Agent Orange/Dioxin Service-connected Disability Compensation

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Senator Webb, we need you on this. U.S. Senator Jim Webb Virginia 248 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: 202-224-4024 Fax: 202-228-6363 Toll Free Number 1-866-507-1570 Webb wary of expanded...

National memberships in veteran service orgs are down

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The headline above is from the last sentence of a piece this week in the Jackson County Chronicle (Wisconsin). Hard-core veterans' advocates know why. So do...