06/26/08 9:30 AMLocation : SR-418
Business meeting to markup S.2969, to amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health-care professionals, S.2309, to amend title 38, United
States Code, to clarify the service treatable as service engaged in combat with the enemy for utilization of non-official evidence for proof of service-connection in a combat-related disease or injury, S.22, to amend title 38, United States Code, to
establish a program of educational assistance for members of the Armed Forces who serve in the Armed Forces after September 11, 2001, S.2617, to increase, effective as of December 1, 2008, the rates of compensation for veterans with
service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and an original bill to provide technical corrections to S.22, the Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of
2007; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine the nomination of Christine O. Hill, to be Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Congressional
Affairs.
Location : SD-106
Hearings to examine the nominations of Nelson M. Ford, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of the Army, Joseph A. Benkert, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary, Sean Joseph Stackley, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and
Frederick S. Celec, of Virginia, to be Assistant to the Secretary for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs, all of the Department of
Defense.
