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Congress returns Tuesday for the first time since the election for legislative business and votes with a busy month ahead.
Wednesday, House and Senate Republicans will both hold leadership elections for the next Congress.
House Republicans will elect their nominee for Speaker, and Senate Republicans will pick their next leader after retaking the majority in the upper chamber.
Newly elected members will also be in Washington, D.C. for orientation, including selecting their Capitol Hill offices by lottery.
The House and Senate are also returning Tuesday, facing a government funding deadline, and must pass additional federal spending legislation by December 20th to avert a shutdown.
As for the floor schedules, the House is back Tuesday at noon Eastern.
Later in the week, members will consider legislation to increase transparency of mail-in ballots by requiring ballot envelopes to have tracking barcodes.
Also, a bill requiring the Education Department make the forms for federal student aid, known as FAFSA, available to students each year on October 1st.
The Senate also returns Tuesday at 3 p.m. Eastern.
Senators will vote later in the week on several of President Biden's judicial nominations for U.S. district and tax courts, and David Heidema to be director of the Federal Office of Government Ethics for a five-year term.
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Good morning, sir.
I'm a retired veteran.
I was in the military from 1962 to 83.
I applied for disability in Indianapolis, and I moved to Florida.
I was rejected.
I have never used the services, but I thought there was people who needed it more than me.
I'm almost 86 years old now, and when I try to get some help, I haven't been able to get any.
I just like to make a comment about that, but it's a shame that I listen to veterans who are getting $8,000 and $10,000, $20,000 a month from the system.
And I talk to guys, and they broke fingernails and stuff.
I just like to make that comment, and it's a shame that I can't get any help.
Thank you for letting me express myself.
Benjamin, have you tried going through one of these veterans organizations out there that like the one we just spoke about in the previous segment?
When I went to my disability is less than 10% when I got out of when I left Indianapolis.
I went to Bay Pines and I did file over there.
There was a representative here in Tampa, some Navy, I mean, Marine person.
I filed and then I talked to him.
And every time I've used the facility, have I had to pay $50 copay just to use the facility?
And that's, you know, it's been miserable.
Benjamin, thanks for sharing your experience from Florida.
This is Pete in the Badger State of Wisconsin, a veteran.
Good morning.
Yeah, how are you doing?
Anyways, this is kind of a complaint against the VA.
I didn't get a chance to talk to your other people that you had on there, but I hope now that President Trump is back in office or once he gets in there.
I hope he makes the VA be held accountable for the things that they do.
I'm going blind because of what they did to me.
So I just thought I'd.
And nobody does anything about it.
I've called congressmen, senators, talk to their veterans, liaison people, filed multiple White House investigations against them.
They just lie about everything and they get out of it.
They're not held accountable.
So I hope once he gets in there again, he does something about it.
That's all I got to say.
Did you think he did something about it in the first term and that there's more to do?
Yeah, he did do something about it.
He made them be held accountable because when I was in the VA in 2019, I was inpatient at one of the VA medical centers here in Wisconsin.
And two people got fired because of what they did to me and because of what they were doing to other veterans.
And then they retaliatoried against me.
And it's been going on ever since.
And I know it's a fact that it's been going on because these investigations have been done.
The advocates, the social workers, everybody knows about it.
And they don't do anything about it.
Because when these people lose their jobs at the VA, they're good, cushy jobs, you know.
They retaliatory against people.
And I'm sorry I had to say this, but it's just my bad luck, I guess.
I'm Vietnam-era.
I was in 74 to 77, and I have all the benefits.
But yeah, I'm going blind because of what they did to me.
And they could care less.
That's Pete in Wisconsin to Michigan.
Hail, Michigan.
This is Dave.
Good morning.
You're next.
Yeah, thanks.
Good morning, John, all you veterans out there.
You know, I wanted to talk to Mr. Haley.
My aspect is every time I look at the Veterans Affairs is we're talking about shortage of funds and money.
Why is it every time that we have a war going on or conflict, you might say, it's an international problem.
We go over and try to liberate these countries, do what we think is best, and then it comes back and all of a sudden our veterans are sitting home complaining they don't have enough funding and it turns into a national problem.
Now, if I was trying to consider something, I would like to see them have a green card, automatic green card, if they want to go back to the country that they helped liberate and fight for under our good faith, that they would be able to go back to that country if they wished and work there.
And they also would be able to come back here, and that country would be responsible to a certain percentage of the costs that our veterans give up for life and limb.