AUDIT: MORE THAN 57,000 AWAIT FIRST VA APPOINTMENT
By MATTHEW DALY FILE This April 28, 2014 file photos shows the Phoenix VA Health Care Center in Phoenix. The Veterans Affairs Department says more than 57,000 patients are still waiting…
Veterans affairs
Here’s the truth: The government doesn’t shut down
By ANDREW TAYLOR Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks with reporters about the looming deadline to fund the government and the fight among House Republicans on a strategy,…
BUILDERS OF OBAMA’S HEALTH WEBSITE SAW RED FLAGS
By JACK GILLUM and JULIE PACE White House press secretary Jay Carney introduces Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Jason Furman who spoke about the economy post government shutdown at the…
SHUTDOWN IMPACT: DEFENSE WORKERS RETURN TO WORK
Protestors hold signs during a during an event with the Democratic Progressive Caucus and furloughed federal employees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, as the budget battle…
AMERICANS ANXIOUS, IRRITATED AS GOV’T SHUTS DOWN
By DEEPTI HAJELA A sign explaining the closing of the Library of Congress is posted outside the Library of Congress in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation…
EARLY STUMBLES IN GOP RACES FOR POST-PERRY TEXAS
By PAUL J. WEBER FILE – In this June 27, 2013 file photo, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott delivers comments at the 43rd Annual National Right To Life Convention in…
OBAMA TO ADDRESS CONVENTION OF DISABLED VETERANS
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013, as they travel to…
VETERANS FIGHT CHANGES TO DISABILITY PAYMENTS
By KEVIN FREKING In this March 24, 2013 photo, former Marine Corps Cpl. Marshall Archer, left, a veterans’ liaison for the city of Portland, Maine, speaks to a man on…