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<h1>Twenty-nine Navajo Marines created an unbreakable military code used during World War II. Memories of those glory days are fading, and Chester Nez is the last living original Code Talker.</h1>
<p>In the face of White House frustration regarding the lack of movement in Congress around President Obama's jobs plan, today the Obama Administration announced two new initiatives designed to help create jobs for veterans, specifically jobs in the heath care field.</p>
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity held two field hearings to discuss the employment problems facing veterans in local communities and how to solve those issues. The two hearings led by Subcommittee Chairman, Rep. Marlin Stutzman, and Ranking Member, Rep. Bruce Braley, were held in Waterloo, Iowa, and Fort Wayne, Indiana.
<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Jeff Denham, a veteran of Desert Storm, hosted a Veterans Roundtable in Sonora Monday night. The roundtables are face-to-face meetings where active military personnel and veterans’ concerns can be addressed on a personal level. As a member of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Denham has been working to streamline the bureaucratic process impeding benefits for many veterans. Denham has held roundtables in Modesto and Fresno as well, according to a news release from his office.</p>
<p>WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Jeff Miller wants to know whether thousands of veterans were improperly charged legal fees when they refinanced their home loans.</p>
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Friday, October 14, 2011, the Chairman and the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Representatives Jeff Miller and Bob Filner, and the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Senators Patty Murray and Richard Burr, submitted a joint letter to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.
<p>Jeff Miller, R-Chumuckla, chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee. Miller said the legislation would "help a broad cross section of veterans to obtain or retain meaningful employment." A number of veterans service organizations endorsed the <strong>...</strong></p>
<p>The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act Wednesday evening.</p>
<p>Four of the delegation members, including Denham, serve on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, and the lawmakers' focus was more on what will become of the US troops now serving than on the future of Afghanistan itself. <strong>...</strong></p>
<p>Roe, a Republican from Johnson City and a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, said he arranged the trip for the five-person congressional delegation because he wanted to see what kind of care soldiers are getting not only in Afghanistan but</p>