VA Budget

House, Senate Veterans Committee Chairs Push To Approve VA Budget One Year in Advance 09/20/08. he chairs of the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs committees are pushing for legislation that would allow Congress to approve funding for veterans' health care programs one year in advance, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, the so-called advance appropriation would separate VA health care funding from "the crush of appropriations and political horse-trading that take place at year's end." Kaisernetwork.org