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(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, the House unanimously passed the “Whole Veteran Act” (H.R. 2359), a bipartisan bill authored by Representative Conor Lamb (PA-17) in partnership with Representatives Tim Ryan (OH-13) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-1). The bill would require the Veterans Administration (VA) to provide Congress with information regarding VA’s Whole Health Program, an integral component to VA’s suicide prevention efforts, ensuring all necessary tools are available to veterans for their individual mental health needs.
On Tuesday, May 21, the House unanimously passed the “Whole Veteran Act” (H.R. 2359), a bipartisan bill authored by Representative Conor Lamb (PA-17) in partnership with Representatives Tim Ryan (OH-13) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-1). The bill would require the Veterans Administration (VA) to provide Congress with information regarding VA’s Whole Health Program, an integral component to VA’s suicide prevention efforts, ensuring all necessary tools are available to veterans for their individual mental health needs
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Representative Conor Lamb (PA-17) in partnership with Representative Tim Ryan (OH-13) introduced The Whole Veteran Act (H.R. 2359) that would require the Veterans Administration (VA) to provide Congress with information regarding VA’s Whole Health Program, an integral component to VA’s suicide prevention efforts, ensuring all necessary tools are available to veterans for their individual mental health needs.
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Representative Conor Lamb (D-PA) in partnership with Representatives David Joyce (R-OH) and David Trone (D-MD), introduced bipartisan legislation to assist state and local law enforcement obtain drug screening devices used by federal law enforcement. The Providing Officers With Electronic Resources (POWER) Act establishes a new grant program at the Department of Justice to help law enforcement agencies secure these high-tech, portable chemical screening devices, also known as interdiction devices, that assist officers in the detection of fentanyl
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Representative Conor Lamb (PA-18) issued the following statement regarding the President signing the ‘SUPPORT for Patients and Community Act’ (H.R. 6), a sweeping, bipartisan opioids package that included dozens of proposals to address the devastating opioid crisis in America. H.R. 6 passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on June 22, 2018 by a vote of 396-14.
Washington, D.C.-- Today, U.S. Representatives Mike Doyle (PA-14), Robert Brady (PA-01), Matt Cartwright (PA-17), Brendan Boyle (PA-13), Dwight Evans (PA-02), and Conor Lamb (PA-18) released a report detailing how people in Pennsylvania would be hurt by the Trump Administration’s action to invalidate protections for people with pre-existing conditions that were guaranteed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
This month, Congressman Lamb’s constituent services team will host mobile office hours across the 18th District to help with issues regarding federal agencies, including:
-- Social Security Administration (SSA)
-- Department of Veteran Affairs (VA)
-- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
-- Medicare
-- United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
-- Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
-- U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
-- Department of State (DoS)
Dates and locations for mobile office hours in September: