Bills Vitally Important to Veterans Health Care             Take Action!

     Please Write to Your Elected Officials TODAY

     Please write to your elected officials in both the House and the Senate to express your concern over the lack of progress on a number of bills vitally important to the health care of America's veterans. Although the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees have held dozens of hearings and marked up numerous bills, several of which have been passed by the House or the Senate, the Congress has failed to reach agreement and approve the great majority of these bills. There are now troubling reports that the House and Senate may not reach any further agreements this year, thereby allowing these vital measures to die at the end of the 110th Congress, which is rapidly drawing to a close.

     While we greatly appreciate all that this Congress has done to support veterans, including approving record increases in funding for veterans health care and a historic new GI Bill for veterans, we would be deeply disappointed if vital authorizing legislation concerning traumatic brain injury (TBI), mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse, women veterans, family caregiver assistance and a number of other issues was allowed to die due to the failure of Congress to reach agreement. These pending measures would significantly enhance the health care of sick, injured and disabled veterans.

     Please join your voice to ours and respectfully ask that your Representative and Senators jointly work with their colleagues on the other side of the aisle and the other side of the Capitol to achieve final passage of the above-referenced bills currently pending before Congress. America's veterans never hesitated to answer the call of duty to protect their country.

     We ask this Congress to show the same resolve in answering the call of our veterans.

     As always, thank you for your support.

Terms of Use                               Privacy Statement

AMERICAN FLAG RETIREMENT – Do you have a old, tattered flag that’s laying around your office or home an you just don’t know what to do with it? Then send it to us! We will properly dispose of it according to federal laws. The DAV will retire your tattered, worn out and frayed American flags with honor! Anything else is desecration! Send or bring your flags to the DAV, Federal Building, Room 566, 210 Walnut Street, Des Moines, IA 50309 and we will dispose of your flags in a proper and dignified manner with full honors and dignity pursuant to the United States Flag Code Section 8K (PL 93-344).  Thank you!

FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in an effort to advance understanding of veterans' issues. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed an interest in receiving the included information for educational purposes. For more information goto : http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml if you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

All questions, comments, changes, additions, deletions or concerns should be directed to the Webmaster.