On January 3, IAVA joined nine other veterans organizations in signing a letter to the President, urging him to approve $3.7 billion in funding for the Veterans Administration. The President approved the emergency measure on January 17. Click here to read a response from IAVA Executive Director, Paul Rieckhoff.
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 IAVA Legislative Director Patrick Campbell will be testifying on the need for a new GI Bill before the House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on Thursday, January 17th.
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 This New Years Eve, thousands of Americans showed the men and women serving abroad how much they appreciated their sacrifice by sending text messages of support to the top of New York City's Times Square. Click here to learn more.
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 The Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed on a final version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2008, and its provisions make this bill one of the single biggest advances on veterans' issues in years.
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And Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are joining the ranks at an alarming rate.
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 The original “GI Bill of Rights” helped almost eight million veterans of World War II afford an education. Today, the current Montgomery GI Bill has a number of problems discouraging veterans from using their benefits, including lower benefit rates, bureaucractic delays, and eligibility issues. Learn more about IAVA's efforts for a new WWII-style GI Bill here.
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 After returning from Iraq in 2005, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) Legislative Director Patrick Campbell drafted a bill to help veterans complete their educations. Based on Campbell's leadership and recommendations, Senator Sherrod Brown (OH) and Representative Susan Davis (CA) introduced The Veterans Education Tuition Support (VETS) Act in Congress.
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 Each year, approximately 115,300 veterans attempt suicide, accounting for nearly one in five suicide attempts in the entire nation. Known as the "Veterans Suicide Prevention Hotline Act of 2007" (H.R. 2219), the legislation would create a 24-hour national toll-free hotline to assist our nation's veterans in crisis.
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