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Washington, DC— Today, U.S. Representative Jeff Miller (R-FL), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, commended an agreement reached to boost employment opportunities for veterans.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed by the 2012 Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for veterans receiving compensation for service-connected disabilities. The COLA also affects the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation of veterans who died as a result of service.
<p>A three-year-long campaign to honor the memory of 14 special servicemembers came to a triumphant end on Oct. 24as hundreds gathered atop Arlington National Cemetery's Chaplains Hill to dedicate a new Jewish Chaplains Memorial.</p>
<p>Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., speaks during the memorial dedication ceremony for the 14 Jewish chaplains who have died in service.</p>
<p>Jewish and veterans' groups dedicated a memorial to U.S. Jewish chaplains who died in service.</p>
<p>Today, the White House is announcing steps to help veterans find work. This is an important objective. That’s why the House has already acted to lend a hand to the men and women who served as they return to civilian life.</p>
<p>On a bitter winter night in 1943, four <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/army/">Army</a> chaplains stood on the deck of the torpedoed and foundering USAT Dorchester while hundreds of American soldiers around them prepared to slip into the icy depths of the North Atlantic.</p>