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Jim Justice
stated on September 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“West Virginia has one of the greatest percentages of veterans in any state.”

By Ivy Ward, Melissa Stone • October 15, 2020

Tulsi Gabbard
stated on June 1, 2019 in a veterans event in California:

Says immigrant military service members applying for U.S. citizenship "are getting rejected at higher numbers than those who are not veterans."

By Miriam Valverde • June 7, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on July 11, 2016 in a speech:

"A shocking 20 veterans are committing suicide each and every day, especially our older veterans."

By Sean Gorman • July 14, 2016

Leticia Van de Putte
stated on June 27, 2014 in her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention:

Dan Patrick was the only state senator "who voted against the Veteran Entrepreneurship Program, a program that assists veterans in successfully starting up their own businesses."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 3, 2014

Major Garrett
stated on May 18, 2014 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

"It's been nearly three weeks since the president has commented" on questions about possible hidden wait lists at veterans hospitals.

By Jon Greenberg • May 20, 2014

John Scocos
stated on September 20, 2013 in a statement:

"There are still tens of thousands of missing service members from previous and current conflicts that our nation is working to find and repatriate."

By Tom Kertscher • September 29, 2013

Michelle Nunn
stated on July 22, 2013 in an interview:

Says by rejecting an expansion of Medicaid under the new law, Georgia was depriving 25,000 veterans of health care coverage.

By Eric Stirgus • August 6, 2013

Tom Graves
stated on April 23, 2013 in a ZPolitics op-ed:

"Despite having their budget increased by over 40 percent since 2009 … pending claims for benefits with the (Department of Veterans Affairs) have increased from 391,000 to 890,000 under the Obama Administration."

By Willoughby Mariano • April 30, 2013

John Cornyn
stated on November 19, 2012 in a tweet:

Says veterans’ disability claims backlog doubled in Obama’s first term.

By Sue Owen • November 28, 2012

Sanford Bishop
stated on July 23, 2012 in an online video of an earlier speech:

"There are close to 900,000 unemployed veterans in America right now."

By Willoughby Mariano • August 3, 2012

Jim Webb
stated on May 14, 2012 in an interview.:

President Obama budget request for veterans is "more than double the amount in constant dollars appropriated in 1980, when the veterans population was larger by a third."

By Sean Gorman • June 4, 2012

Rush Holt
stated on December 14, 2011 in a press release:

"Before this day is out, 18 more veterans will have taken their own lives. That is the daily average, it is intolerable, and it has to stop."

By Caryn Shinske • January 26, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 in a Twitter town hall:

"Young veterans have a higher unemployment rate than people who didn’t serve."

By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2011

Debbie Stabenow
stated on March 1, 2011 in a news release:

A government shutdown "could disrupt ... veterans' benefits."

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011

Josh Mandel
stated on September 22, 2010 in a campaign ad:

"Decorated Marine, two-tour Iraq war vet."

By Joe Guillen • October 29, 2010

David Axelrod
stated on August 13, 2009 in in a chain e-mail:

Health care reform will not affect veterans' benefits.

By Catharine Richert • August 14, 2009

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