2025 Legislative Priorities
As part of AMVETS’ Legislative Advocacy Week (LAW), we would like to share this list of our top legislative priorities and ask for your assistance in planning for LAW week.
Please send an email using the following link, providing your name, department and the number of people who will be attending LAW week. LAW Week Registration
These priorities are reflective of issues important to Veterans, AMVETS members and our communities, and we urge your support of these initiatives. Printable Summary of the 2025 Priorities is available by clicking here.
2025 Top Legislative Priorities:
- Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in the VA and Armed Forces
- Ensure the Completion of a Successful and Seamless Electronic Healthcare Record
- Promote Veteran Neurorehabilitative Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Care
- Increase Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) for Our Survivors
- Pass the Major Richard Star Act
- Amplify Women Veterans' Voices in Policy and Government to Address Issues Disproportionately Affecting Them
- Expand Access to VA Care & Strengthen Retention Efforts at VA
- Develop a National Veterans Strategy to Align Care and Benefits to Focus on Outcomes and Success
- Honor POWs/MIAs
- Enhance Readiness and Recruitment for the Next Generation of Veterans
Additional information on each of the priorities can be found on the 2025 AMVETS Legislative Priorities document.
The following are the 2024 bills supported by AMVETS that :
Major Richard Star Act 2024 Bill (H.R. 1282) (S. 344)
- In House: 326 cosponsors; bipartisan; made it through HVAC markup
- In Senate: 71 cosponsors; bipartisan
No hearing held in the Senate
Caring for Survivors Act 2024 Bill (H.R. 1083) (S. 414)
- For surviving spouses/DIC
- In House: 65 cosponsors; Democrat-heavy (only 3 Republicans)
- In Senate: 21 cosponsors; Democrat-heavy (only 2 Republicans & 1 Independent)
- Hearing to be held in the House on January 30,2024
- Hearing held in the Senate 2024
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A Note About Room Numbering
The three primary House office buildings—Cannon, Longworth and Rayburn—share a room numbering system for above-ground rooms that might confuse visitors at first. The system is fairly straight forward and can be used to identify most member and committee offices merely by knowing the correct room number regardless of building.
All Cannon above-ground rooms are three digits. As you would expect, the first digit indicates the floor level. For example, 303 Cannon is on the 3rd floor.
All above-ground Longworth rooms are four digits and start with the number 1. The second digit from the left indicates the floor. For example, 1309 is on the third floor of the Longworth building.
All above-ground Rayburn rooms are also four digits, but start with a 2. The second digit indicates the floor number. For example, 2125 is on the first floor of Rayburn.
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Updated 2/10/2025
