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**FILE** Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican (Associated Press)

King: Syria biggest threat to U.S.

Rep. Peter King said Sunday that despite unrest in Iraq, Syria is the biggest threat right now to America's national security interests, noting the high number of Americans or those with European passports in Syria who could travel to the U.S.

June 29, 2014
** FILE ** Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican. (Associated Press)

Rogers: FBI needs more time to interrogate Benghazi suspect

A key House leader with oversight of intelligence issues said Sunday that the FBI needs more than just 10 days to interrogate the suspect in the Benghazi attack since the intelligence he has could be valuable to national security.

June 29, 2014
** FILE ** House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Issa: Disappearing emails miss core of IRS scandal

Rep. Darrell E. Issa said Sunday that issues about emails disappearing in the Internal Revenue Service scandal are missing the root of the problem — that conservative groups were targeted by the IRS.

June 29, 2014
Sen. Richard Burr, North Carolina Republican and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Veterans', said of a potential cash infusion to the VA: "This is ludicrous. It is impossible for us to even start an intelligent conversation on what we put in legislation when we have numbers that are so grotesquely out of line." (Associated Press)

$50 billion price tag proves a stumbling block in VA bill

House and Senate negotiators met Tuesday to try to hammer out a compromise bill to gain a handle on the reports of problems piling up at the VA, but they immediately began stumbling over the potential $50 billion-a-year price tag.

June 24, 2014
Rep. Paul Cook, R-Calif., right, and Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., members of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, listen as officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs testify about allegations of gross mismanagement and misconduct at Veterans Administration hospitals, possibly leading to patient deaths, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

VA resurrects dead vets to make wait list look good

The Phoenix VA facility allegedly edited the records of dead veterans to make it seem like they didn't die while waiting for care, even in recent weeks as the department has been under a microscope.

June 23, 2014

VA ignored complaints, did nothing to address problems: report

A veteran with serious mental health problems waited more than eight years after being admitted at the Brockton, Massachusetts, VA healthcare facility for a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation — part of a "troubling pattern" of neglect across the country, according to a report released Monday by the Justice Department's Office of Special Counsel.

June 23, 2014

Lawmakers doubt VA’s credibility, transparency on care plan

Lawmakers commended the VA on Monday for taking some actions to improve waiting times, but criticized the department for its lack of transparency about its new initiatives and wondered why it took so long to make seemingly-obvious fixes.

June 23, 2014
Rep. Jeff Miller, Florida Republican and Veterans' Affairs committee chairman, maintains that timely health care for veterans is paramount over the source of that care — be it from the VA or private practitioners. (associated press)

VA wait list increases, as do referrals to private doctors

Congress wants the VA to speed up veterans' care by using private doctors and clinics, but department officials told lawmakers Wednesday their wait lists data is so bad they couldn't even be sure who has been waiting long enough to be eligible.

June 18, 2014
Senate Veterans Affairs Committee chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont independent, says he's hopeful the veterans health care bill the Senate passed Wednesday will be reconciled quickly with a similar measure passed unanimously by the House. (Associated press photographs)

House, Senate to begin negotiations on final vets bill

Designees from the House and Senate will begin this week to hammer out differences between the House and Senate legislation to let veterans get health care outside the Department of Veterans Affairs, including looking for ways to cover the cost.

June 17, 2014
Wind picks up snow from the ground as a man waits to take a photograph of a statue dedicated to the victims of the Katyn massacre in 1940, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, in Jersey City, N.J. The National Weather Service said the storm could bring 8 to 12 inches of snow to Philadelphia and New York City, and more than a foot in Boston. Bitterly cold air with wind chills as low as 10 degrees below zero was forecast. The Katyn Memorial, a 34-feet tall bronze statue of depicting a soldier and created by Polish-American sculptor Andrzej Pitynski, commemorates the massacre of thousands of Polish prisoners by order of Joseph Stalin in April and May 1940 after Soviet Union troops had invaded eastern Poland. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Museum to honor victims of communism seeks spot on National Mall

With Russia making waves on the world stage and Marxism resurfacing in some academic circles, those who survived communism say it's time to get serious about building a museum to honor the victims of such governments and warn of the dangers of a relapse.

June 17, 2014