Miscellaneous Veterans' Bills: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session on S. 299, S. 2201, [and] S. 2235U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960 - 48 pages |
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... ADMINISTRATION FACILITIES " S. 2235 A BILL TO PROVIDE BENEFITS ESTABLISHED BY THE VETERANS ' READJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1952 TO PERSONS WHO GRADUATED FROM AIR FORCE RESERVE OFFICERS ' TRAINING CORPS TRAINING IN 1954 AND SERVED ON ...
... ADMINISTRATION FACILITIES " S. 2235 A BILL TO PROVIDE BENEFITS ESTABLISHED BY THE VETERANS ' READJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1952 TO PERSONS WHO GRADUATED FROM AIR FORCE RESERVE OFFICERS ' TRAINING CORPS TRAINING IN 1954 AND SERVED ON ...
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... Administration . S. 2235 Report from the Bureau of the Budget . Report from the Veterans ' Administration Report from the Department of the Air Force-- STATEMENTS Bartlett , Hon . E. L. , a U.S. Senator from the State of Alaska Berg ...
... Administration . S. 2235 Report from the Bureau of the Budget . Report from the Veterans ' Administration Report from the Department of the Air Force-- STATEMENTS Bartlett , Hon . E. L. , a U.S. Senator from the State of Alaska Berg ...
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... Administration Facilities " as contained in section 501 ( 4 ) ( C ) of title 38 , United States Code , so as to permit veterans of any war to use private contract facilities if no Veterans ' Administration hospital is located within a ...
... Administration Facilities " as contained in section 501 ( 4 ) ( C ) of title 38 , United States Code , so as to permit veterans of any war to use private contract facilities if no Veterans ' Administration hospital is located within a ...
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... Administration is opposed to this bill for reasons set forth in its report to the committee . The Bureau of the Budget concurs in the adverse position of the Veterans ' Administration and therefore recommends against enactment of this ...
... Administration is opposed to this bill for reasons set forth in its report to the committee . The Bureau of the Budget concurs in the adverse position of the Veterans ' Administration and therefore recommends against enactment of this ...
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... Administration regulations provided that a veteran could not be placed in rehabilitation training unless a reasonable certainty existed that he could complete the prescribed course of training prior to the applicable de- limiting date ...
... Administration regulations provided that a veteran could not be placed in rehabilitation training unless a reasonable certainty existed that he could complete the prescribed course of training prior to the applicable de- limiting date ...
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Page 6 - USC 757e), is amended by inserting immediately before the period at the end thereof a comma and the following : "except that the State of Idaho may be a participant under this Act".
Page 4 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Vnited States of America in Congress assembled, That...
Page 5 - ... should also be true of these two new States. Use of private contract facilities in Alaska and Hawaii, as States, for providing hospital care to veterans with conditions not growing out of their service might well become a precedent for authorizing the use of contract facilities in other States. Veterans needing care for service-connected conditions in both Alaska and Hawaii will, of course, continue to receive that care in private contract hospitals wherever necessary. The basic law applicable...
Page 5 - Administration was deprived of its general authority to provide contract hospital care there for veterans suffering from non-serviceconnected disabilities. It has long been Government policy to provide hospital care for our war veterans for conditions not related to their service only to the extent of available Government facilities. It has not been the policy to attempt to care for all such cases.
Page 5 - ... are available in VA or other Federal hospitals. This exception, according to the Veterans Administrator, in a report to this committee, is based upon "special considerations." Said considerations include the factors of great distances from the mainland, difficulty in transferring patients to other States, and the relatively small volume of patient demands in the territories and possessions. Without commenting as to whether these "special considerations...
Page 10 - ... disabilities in territories and possessions of the United States and in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Before Alaska and Hawaii became States this special provision of law was applicable for the benefit of veterans living there. However, with the coming of statehood this valuable benefit was lost, as the law does not provide for contracts for hospital care of veterans with non-service-connected disabilities in the States. The effect of the law results in an unintentional but serious discrimination...
Page 10 - STATEMENT OF HON. ERNEST GRUENING, A US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF ALASKA Senator GRUENING.
Page 2 - Hon. LISTER HILL, Chairman, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, V.8. Senate, Washington, DC MY DEAR MR.
Page 5 - But arrangements have been made in both to care for war veterans with non-serviceconnected disabilities in other Government hospitals. In Alaska, we have beds allocated for VA beneficiaries in hospitals of the Department of Defense and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Page 12 - STATEMENT OF HON. EL BARTLETT, A US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF ALASKA Mr. Chairman, I am pleased today to add my support to S. 5, the Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1963.