The letter from a trio of Democratic senators coincides with warnings from researchers and others familiar with the situation ...

Much of the heavy funding comes from Military and Veterans Affairs' earmarks, while the Transportation appropriations bill has well over 2,000 project requests.

Fighting for pensions. Veterans were not always politically popular, nor were they treated well by the federal government.. After the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, Gen. George Washington ...

Veterans pushed past barricades of the closed WWII memorial. ... On Oct. 16, the Senate and House voted to fund the government until Jan. 15 and extend the debt limit.