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<p>I’d go back tomorrow — if they’d let me fly,” says the staff director for the Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s Economic Opportunity subcommittee.</p>
<p>Representatives Jeff Miller of Florida and Bob Filner of California hosted a Veterans Employment Summit in Washington on Sept. 13 to discuss best practices for hiring veterans in the private sector.</p>
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs hosted a Veterans Employment Summit to discuss the best practices of the private sector for hiring veterans.
<p>“I don’t know [if I’m] a lifer,” says the professional staff member for the Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, “but I see myself here for a while.”</p>
<p>“This is the last place anybody who knows me would have expected me to be,” says the Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s majority staff director for the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee.</p>
<p>The House of Representatives could vote as early as next week on sweeping legislation that makes the Veterans Affairs Department more dog-friendly.</p>
There are moments in our lives that forever change who we are, how we think, how we act. Moments that remain a part of us and that we never forget. Ten years ago, September 11 became one of those moments. A moment in American history that struck the heart of our entire nation.
<p>Yesterday, the VFW was on hand at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill, where the House Committee on Veterans Affairs moved forward with seven pieces of critical veterans' legislation -- many of which the VFW has supported in testimony before the committee this year.</p>