Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
Committee Contact Information
1036 Longworth House Office Building
Phone (202) 225-3481
Membership
Democrats
- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Ranking Member
- Rep. Sanford Bishop, Jr.
- Rep. Susie Lee
- Rep. Henry Cuellar
- Rep. Chellie Pingree
Republicans
- Rep. John Carter, Chair
- Rep. David Valadao
- Rep. John Rutherford
- Rep. Tony Gonzales
- Rep. Michael Guest
- Rep. Ryan Zinke
- Rep. Stephanie Bice
- Rep. Scott Franklin
Jurisdiction
- Department of Defense
- Military Construction, Army, Navy (including Marine Corps), Air Force (including Space Force), Defense-wide, and National Guard and Reserve Forces
- Military Family Housing Construction and Operation and Maintenance, Army, Navy (including Marine Corps), Air Force (including Space Force), and Defense-wide
- Department of Defense Base Closure Account
- Chemical Demilitarization Construction, Defense-wide
- Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund
- Homeowners Assistance Fund
- Military Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund
- NATO Security Investment Program
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Related Agencies
- American Battle Monuments Commission
- Armed Forces Retirement Home
- U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
- Civil, Cemeterial Expenses, Army
Recent Activity
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Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-23), Ranking Member of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in opposition to the fiscal year 2024 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies bill.
Republicans amended the bill to correct some of their recent initiatives that would harm veterans, including the immediate rescission of $2 billion for veterans medical care in the Republicans’ Default on America Act and were shamed out of their dramatic cuts to the Toxic Exposures Fund, which was created to ensure veterans of all wars exposed to Agent Orange, burn pits, and other toxic substances would be cared for in the initial mark of their 2024 funding bill. Despite these changes, the bill still falls short, and paired with the topline allocations they released late last night, Republicans are still failing our veterans. House Democrats were united in their opposition, voting unanimously against the bill.
This is the first 2024 bill we are marking up in full committee, and despite having a bill with a topline signed into law, we are operating under unprecedented circumstances that follow a months-long saga of Republicans holding the global economy hostage and placing us on the brink of default and economic catastrophe.
While Republicans are now fully funding Medical Care at VA, we now know – thanks to a press story last night leaking the full slate of 302(b) allocations, that the rest of the domestic bills that veterans rely on will be gutted. We literally just passed the bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act, and Republicans are already reneging on the agreement.
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on the last-second postponement of scheduled full committee markups of the “Interim” Subcommittee Allocations; Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies; Legislative Branch; Homeland Security; and Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies bills.