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The Department is funded primarily from three sources: yearly appropriations, patient fees, and federal funding. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs provides the Department a federal per diem payment per veteran in each Department Veterans Center. Each of the three funding sources makes up roughly one-third of the total budget of ...
The U.S. Veterans Affairs Department launched a new hotline—1-855-VA-WOMEN—for questions from veterans, their families and caregivers about VA services and resources available to women veterans. [105] Marlene Rodriguez became the first woman to join Chapter 49 of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. [106]
Vicki Miles-LaGrange, born in 1953 in Oklahoma City, was the first woman U.S. Attorney in Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society.. After she graduated from the Howard University ...
Under Oklahoma state law, any person the Governor appoints to serve as the Secretary must be an honorably discharged veteran and be eligible to receive benefits from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Oklahoma state law always for Cabinet Secretaries to serve concurrently as the head of a State agency in addition to their duties ...
Collins has been vocally critical of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the past. The department has more than 370,000 health care employees on staff and is tasked with providing a range of ...
Gov. Greg Abbott signed Texas Senate Bill 805 on June 9, 2017, designating June 12th as Women Veterans Day in Texas. This June 15, 1998, article by Daniel Perez was part of a special section ...
In March 2015, the University of Oklahoma shut down the Oklahoma Kappa chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity when a video surfaced that showed members singing a racist chant as they rode a bus. [31] University of Oklahoma president David Boren gave members two days to leave the fraternity house. He also expelled two students who he said ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100–527) changed the former Veterans' [29] Administration, an independent government agency established in 1930 into a Cabinet-level Department of Veterans Affairs. It was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 25, 1988, but came into effect under the term of his successor ...