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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
Homeless rate steady in latest government estimate
A vigorous effort to house the homeless has been countered somewhat by a sluggish economy. The federal government and local communities have greatly increased the number of beds available to the homeless over the last four years, either through emergency shelters or through government-subsidized apartments and houses. But the struggling economy contributed to the number of homeless people in the United States remaining stable between January 2011 and January 2012.
Tags: VA , HUD , veterans homelessness , Mark Johnston
