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House lawmakers press VA for more details, assurances after cyber attacks
House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) and ranking member Michael Michaud (D-Maine) sent Secretary Eric Shinseki a letter asking for an explanation on why VA didn't tell the committee about multiple nation state attacks. The lawmakers call for VA to offer credit monitoring services to tens of millions of veterans.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , House Veterans Affairs Committee , Jeff Miller , Mike Michaud , Veterans Affairs , VA , Jason Miller
VA Chief of Staff John Gingrich to retire
John Gingrich, the chief of staff for the Veterans Affairs Department, is retiring and will leave the agency by the end of the month after 37 years of federal and military service.
Tags: VA , people , John Gingrich , VA conference scandal
Shinseki says VA on target for ending backlog
Tags: Veterans Affairs , Jeff Miller , House Committee on Veterans Affairs , House
Whistleblowers allege wrongdoing at VA center
In the letter sent Monday to the White House and Congress, the Office of Special Counsel said an initial 2009 report by a whistleblower employee at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., alleged that the staff routinely failed to properly clean and sterilize reusable medical equipment such as scalpels and bone cutters.
Tags: Veterans Affairs , whistleblower , Office of Special Counsel , Congress
Lawmakers applaud VA on same-sex burial request
Sixteen Democratic senators are calling on the Veterans Affairs Department to keep granting waivers so that same-sex spouses can be buried in national cemeteries.
Tags: DoD , VA , Defense of Marriage Act
Boehner says US veterans' claims system is broken
Tags: Congress , House , VA , VA claims backlog , John Boehner ,
VA allows burial of first same-sex spouse in national cemetery
The government has cleared the first burial of a same-sex spouse of a veteran in a national cemetery, but it's far from certain how easy it will be for other gay military couples to win the same benefit.
Tags: Veterans Affairs Department , National Cemetery Association , gay rights
DoD, VA accelerate schedule for integrated health record
The two departments are looking for "quick wins" in their integrated health-record strategy, aiming to bring the most important capabilities online three years early.
Tags: DoD , VA , health IT , technology , Integrated Electronic Health Record , Leon Panetta , Roger Baker , Jonathan Woodson , Elizabeth McGrath , Jared Serbu
Shinseki absent from inaugural ceremonies
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki was absent from ceremonial inaugural ceremonies as President Barack Obama was being sworn-in to a second term.
Tags: Veterans Affairs , Inauguration 2013
Obama Cabinet shuffle taking shape
Tags: John Kerry , State , management , nomination , VA , HHS , Kathleen Sebelius , Eric Holder , DoJ
