HearingCompleted

Legislative Hearing on: Discussion Draft, Standardizing Treatment and Referral Times Act; Discussion Draft, No Wrong Door for Veterans Act; Discussion Draft, Providing Veterans Essential Medications Act; Discussion Draft, Veterans Supporting Prosthetics Opportunities and Recreational Therapy Act; Discussion Draft, To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Comptroller General of the United States to report on certain funding shortfalls in the Department of Veterans Affairs; H.R. 217, CHIP IN for Veterans Act (Rep. Bacon); H.R. 1107, Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025 (Rep. Womack); H.R. 1336, The Veterans National Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act (Rep. Murphy); H.R. 658, To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish qualifications for the appointment of a person as a marriage and family therapist, qualified to provide clinical supervision, in the Veterans Health Administration; Discussion Draft, Copay Fairness for Veterans Act; Discussion Draft, Saving Our Veterans Lives Act; and Discussion Draft, Women Veterans Cancer Care Coordination Act

Mar 11, 20256:15 PM360, Cannon House Office Building

Witnesses · 16

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The Honorable Jack Bergman

Member of Congress

2

The Honorable Gregory Murphy

Member of Congress

3

The Honorable Steve Womack

Member of Congress

4

The Honorable Don Bacon

Member of Congress

5

The Honorable Lauren Underwood

Member of Congress

6

The Honorable Christopher Deluzio

Member of Congress

7

Dr. Thomas O'Toole

Deputy Assistant Undersecretary for Health for Clinical Services, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration

8

Dr. Antoinette Shappell

Deputy Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Patient Services, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration

9

Dr. Thomas Emmendorfer

Pharmacy Benefits Management, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration

10

Dr. Jeffrey Gold

President, University of Nebraska System

11

Dr. Andrew Kozminski

Medical Director of Hyperbaric Medicine, University of Iowa Health Care

12

Mr. Ed Harries

President, National Association of State Veterans Homes

13

Mr. Jon Retzer

Deputy National Legislative Director for Health, Disabled American Veterans

14

Ms. Sue Morris

President, Veterans Trust

15

Mr. Brian Dempsey

Director of Government Affairs, Wounded Warrior Project

16

The Honorable Sylvia Garcia

Member of Congress