Legislative information GovTrack Update for Jan. 11 2017

You Are Tracking Congress This is your email update from GovTrack.us.  Email Updates Jan 9, 2017 — Introduced H.R. 369: To eliminate the sunset of the Veterans Choice Program, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. David "Phil" Roe [R-TN1] This bill was referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and House Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Health which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration. Rep. David "Phil" Roe [R-TN1] is a member of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Rep. David "Phil" Roe [R-TN1] is a member of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Health. You are seeing this event because you subscribe to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Jan 9, 2017 — Introduced S. 75: A bill to provide for the reconsideration of claims for disability compensation for veterans who were the subjects of experiments by the Department of Defense during World War II that were conducted to assess the effects of mustard gas or lewisite Sponsor: Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO] This bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs which will consider it before sending it to the Senate floor for consideration. You are seeing this event because you subscribe to Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Jan 10, 2017 — Introduced H.R. 411: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a review of the deaths of certain veterans who died by suicide, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Peter "Pete" King [R-NY2] This bill was referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration. 4 cosponsors are on that committee. You are seeing this event because you subscribe to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Jan 10, 2017 — Introduced S. 86: A bill to amend the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to modify the termination date for the Veterans Choice Program. Sponsor: Sen. John McCain [R-AZ] This bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs which will consider it before sending it to the Senate floor for consideration. You are seeing this event because you subscribe to Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Jan 10, 2017 — Introduced H.R. 388: To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that veterans in each of the 48 contiguous States are able to receive services in at least one full-service hospital of the Veterans Health Administration in the State or receive comparable servi Sponsor: Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH1] This bill was referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration. You are seeing this event because you subscribe to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Jan 10, 2017 — Introduced H.R. 418: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program to improve access to supportive services and community coordination for families of disabled veterans. Sponsor: Rep. Brenda Lawrence [D-MI14] This bill was referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration. You are seeing this event because you subscribe to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. On GovTrack Insider: House Republicans tried to silence the Office of Congressional Ethics in a pre-session secret… House Republicans came under fire this week for announcing that they would reduce the role of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE)… Jan 6, 2017 7:49 a.m. We looked at eight years of the Republican Weekly Address Every week since Ronald Reagan started the tradition in 1982, the president delivers a weekly address. Jan 4, 2017 9:02 a.m. Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) is Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of the Interior Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) is President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of the Interior. Zinke, a first-term Congressman… Jan 1, 2017 7:06 p.m. Get all GovTrack Insider posts by adding them to your email updates. Follow us on Facebook @GovTrack on Twitter GovTrack Insider on Medium.