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United States House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee On Health
The United States Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Health is one of the four subcommittees within the House Veterans' Affairs Committee The standing committee, standing Committee on Veterans' Affairs in the United States House of Representatives oversees agencies, reviews current legislation, and recommends new Act of Congress, bills or amendments concerning U.S. military veteran .... The Subcommittee on Health has legislative and oversight jurisdiction for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ health care system, programs and research apparatus. Jurisdiction The Subcommittee on Health has legislative, oversight and investigative jurisdiction over the Veterans Health Administration including medical services, medical support and compliance, medical facilities, medical and prosthetic research, and major and minor construction. Members, 119th Congress Historical membership rosters 115th Congress 116th Congress 117th Congress 118th Congress References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States House Committee On Veterans' Affairs
The standing committee, standing Committee on Veterans' Affairs in the United States House of Representatives oversees agencies, reviews current legislation, and recommends new Act of Congress, bills or amendments concerning U.S. military veterans. Jurisdiction includes retiring and disability pensions, life insurance, education (including the G.I. Bill), vocational training, medicine, medical care, and home loan guarantees. The committee oversees the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), veterans' hospitals, and veterans' cemetery, cemeteries, except cemeteries under the United States Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of the Interior. The Veterans' Affairs Committee does not have legislative jurisdiction over the following issues: * Tax status of veterans benefits and contributions to Veterans Service Organizations (United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Committee on Ways and Means); * Military retiree issues, including CO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amata Coleman Radewagen
Amata Catherine Coleman Radewagen ( ; born December 29, 1947), commonly called Aumua Amata ( ), is an American Samoan politician who is the current delegate for the United States House of Representatives from American Samoa. Radewagen, a Republican, was elected on November 4, 2014, after defeating Democratic incumbent Eni Faleomavaega; she was the first-ever Republican delegate since the office had been created in 1970 and began her tenure on January 3, 2015. She also serves as the national committeewoman for the Republican Party of American Samoa. Amata is the first woman to represent American Samoa in the U.S. Congress. By winning 75.4% of the vote in her 2016 re-election, Aumua Amata attained the highest number of votes in American Samoa history. She won reelection with 83.3 percent of the votes in a three-way race in 2018. She has been the scheduling director for the United States House of Representatives majority leadership for eight years. Radewagen has been the most se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Peterson
Collin Clark Peterson (born June 29, 1944) is an American accountant, politician, and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for from 1991 to 2021. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he was chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture from 2019 to 2021 having previously held the office from 2007 to 2011; he had been ranking member from 2011 to 2019 and 2005 to 2007. Peterson was the most senior U.S. Representative from Minnesota and the dean of Minnesota's congressional delegation. In 2020, Peterson was defeated by Michelle Fischbach, ending his 30-year tenure in the United States House of Representatives. In 2022, Peterson registered as a federal lobbyist after opening an eponymous consulting firm. Early life, education, and early political career Collin Peterson was born in Fargo, North Dakota, grew up on a farm in Baker, Minnesota, and received his B.A. at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Peterson was a member of the Minnesota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gil Cisneros
Gilbert Ray Cisneros Jr. (born February 12, 1971) is an American government official, philanthropist, and politician who is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 31st congressional district since 2025. Cisneros, a Democrat since 2008, previously served as Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness in the Biden administration and the U.S. representative for from 2019 to 2021. In 2010, he and his wife won a $266 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot and became philanthropists. He was elected to the House in 2018 to represent . He was defeated in his 2020 bid for reelection by former California State Assembly member Young Kim, whom he had defeated in 2018. In April 2021, he was nominated by President Biden to serve as Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, and after confirmation by the Senate, he assumed office on August 24, 2021. On August 1, 2023, he announced he was stepping down from his posi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Rose (politician)
Max Rose (born November 28, 1986) is an American military officer and politician who served as a United States Representative from New York for a single term from 2019 to 2021. A moderate Democrat, he served on the committees for Homeland Security and Veterans' Affairs and played a key role in bringing a stalled bill for a fund for victims of the September 11 attacks to a vote in the United States House of Representatives. Rose served in the Biden administration as senior advisor to the United States Secretary of Defense for COVID-19 from January 2021 to July 2021. From 2012 to 2013, Rose served in the U.S. Army as a platoon leader in combat in the War in Afghanistan. Wounded while on duty, he was awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. In 2018, Rose defeated incumbent Republican Dan Donovan to win election to New York's 11th congressional district. The district includes all of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn. In the 2020 election, Rose lost to the Republican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Brindisi
Anthony Joseph Brindisi (born November 22, 1978) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of New York. He serves as a United States district judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. Brindisi served as the U.S. representative from New York's 22nd congressional district from 2019 to 2021. He represented New York's 119th Assembly District from 2011 to 2019. Before his election to the New York State Assembly, Brindisi served on the Utica School Board and practiced as an attorney. He was first elected to the New York State Assembly in a September 2011 special election. Brindisi narrowly defeated Republican U.S. Representative Claudia Tenney in the 2018 election in New York's 22nd congressional district. Tenney challenged Brindisi in 2020. Initially, the 2020 election was too close to call, and its results were challenged in court. On February 5, 2021, a state trial court judge declared Tenney the winner. After leaving Congr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Levin
Michael Ted Levin ( ; born October 20, 1978) is an American politician and attorney who serves as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for California's 49th congressional district since 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party and represents most of San Diego County, California, San Diego's North County, as well as part of southern Orange County, California, Orange County. Early life and education Levin was born in Inglewood, California, Inglewood, California, and raised in Lake Forest, California, Lake Forest, South Orange County, Orange County. His mother is Mexican Americans, Mexican-American and his father is American Jews, Jewish. Levin was raised in both the Jewish and Catholic Church, Catholic faiths. His maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Mexico as children, arriving with little formal education or money. They eventually established a business distributing Wurlitzer Jukebox, jukebo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conor Lamb
Conor James Lamb (born June 27, 1984) is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district from 2018 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented the neighboring in 2018. A longtime resident of Pittsburgh, Lamb earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He began his law career as a Judge Advocate for United States Marine Corps before serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in his home city from 2014 to 2017. Lamb ran for the 18th district's seat in a special election caused by Republican congressman Tim Murphy's resignation and defeated Republican Rick Saccone. After Pennsylvania's congressional map was redrawn by court order the same year, Lamb won his first full term to the 17th district in the general election. He did not seek re-election to his House seat in 2022 in order to run for the 2022 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, finishing second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Correa
Jose Luis Correa ( ; born January 24, 1958) is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2017. His district is based in Orange County and includes the communities of Anaheim and Santa Ana, as well as parts of Orange. A member of the Democratic Party, Correa represented the 34th district in the California State Senate from 2006 to 2014. Before his career in politics, Correa was an investment banker, a real estate broker, and a college instructor. Early life and education Correa's paternal grandfather came to the United States from Mexico to work for the Southern Pacific Transportation Company in the 1910s. His grandfather settled down in the U.S. and started a family. During the Great Depression, he returned to Mexico with his American-born children. Years later, Correa's father got married and moved from Mexico to California. Correa was born in East Los Angeles. His mother was killed in a car accident in Mexico when he was two. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beto O'Rourke
Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke ( , ; ; born September 26, 1972) is an American politician who served as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for from 2013 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, O'Rourke was the party's nominee for the United States Senate, U.S. Senate in 2018 United States Senate election in Texas, 2018, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, presidential nomination in 2020, and the party's nominee for the 2022 Texas gubernatorial election. O'Rourke was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas, and is a graduate of Woodberry Forest School and Columbia University. While studying at Columbia, he began a brief music career as Bassist, bass guitarist in the post-hardcore band Foss (band), Foss. After his college graduation, he returned to El Paso and began a business career. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council, serving until 2011; he served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann McLane Kuster
Ann L. McLane Kuster (born September 5, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2013 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously worked as a lobbyist. Kuster chaired the New Democrat Coalition, a centrist caucus among House Democrats. Kuster announced on March 27, 2024, that she would not seek re-election to a seventh term in the U.S. House. Early life and education Kuster was born in Concord, New Hampshire, on September 5, 1956. Both her parents were politicians. Her father, Malcolm McLane, was mayor of Concord, a member of the New Hampshire Executive Council, and an owner of Wildcat Mountain Ski Area. In 1972, he ran for governor of New Hampshire as an independent. He received 20% of the vote in an election that Republican Mel Thomson won with a plurality of 40%. Kuster's mother, Susan McLane, was elected to the New Hampshire Senate as a Republican. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
