Federal Times: Veterans Affairs officials are pleading with Capitol Hill leaders to pass their department’s fiscal 2017 budget, reform the benefit appeals process and tackle a host of other top legislative priorities before time runs out on the current congressional session at the end of the year.
In a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees on Tuesday, VA Secretary Bob McDonald called adopting the veterans measures “a moral imperative” and added that lawmakers’ lack of progress on the issues so far this year is hurting department reform efforts.
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