Veteran Legislative Voice Podcast
Legislative analysis simplified for the everyday citizen, covering specifically in military and veterans' issues.
Episodes
It's been reported that 1 in 3 of the country's 19 million veterans have been arrested and booked at least once, and currently about 181,500 are behind bars. According to the Los Angeles United Methodist Museum of Social Justice, this country has approximately 700,000 foreign-born veterans, and 45,000 active members, and each year, 5,000 new immigrants join the military. As of 2018, 17 percent of those foreign-born veterans...
Historic and current events surrounding women's reproductive health in the military and the VA, and how it affects everything else.
Here are the links to what is referenced:
https://uslaw.link/citation/us-law/public/80/625
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Armed_Services_Integration_Act
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/executive-orders/10240/executive-order-10240
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/b...
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/mccarthy-bill-uses-debt-ceiling-to-force-harmful-policies-deep-cuts
https://www.c-span.org/video/?530878-3/house-session-part-2#
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/veterans-protest-closure-of-monuments-and-memorials/2013/10/13/adaf699c-342e-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html
https://theweek.com/articles/819015/make-government-shutdowns-impossible-again
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-14/us-government-shutdown-definition-impact-history-explained
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/population-profiles/veteran-beneficiaries.html
https://www.usnews....
For this first episode, I cover the basics of legislation and particular issues in military and veterans' subjects.
For the background of Vanessa Guillen: https://www.nytimes.com/article/vanessa-guillen-fort-hood.html
How a bill becomes a law: https://kids-clerk.house.gov/grade-school/lesson.html?intID=17#:~:text=The%20Bill%20Is%20a%20Law,is%20enforced%20by%20the%20government.
The New Yorker article "What Calling Congress...
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