{"id":166153,"date":"2025-02-05T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=166153"},"modified":"2025-02-05T13:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:13:59","slug":"senate-confirms-va-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=166153","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms VA Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-166154 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/collins-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/collins-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/collins.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Veterans Affairs Secretary Collins<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Senate confirms Doug Collins to be VA secretary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Story by Mike Brest<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Senate confirmed Doug Collins as secretary of veterans affairs on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Collins, a former Georgia congressman who serves as a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve, was confirmed in a bipartisan, 77-23 vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I&#8217;m confirmed by this body, the VA will be my mission,&#8221; Collins said during his confirmation hearing last month. &#8220;It will be the mission to take care of our veterans and to make sure they get the benefits that they deserve.<br \/>\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\nCollins served a combat tour in Iraq in 2008 and has been a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve, where he is still a lieutenant colonel reservist, since 2002.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/senate-confirms-doug-collins-to-be-va-secretary\/ar-AA1ypr19?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">MSN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not as newsworthy to most perhaps, but the VA is weighted more heavily here. The Federal workplace tectonic changes currently occurring can&#8217;t help but touch there too; the new Secretary will not have an easy task. He seems like a solid choice and I wish him well. Thanks to Chip for the head&#8217;s up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Affairs Secretary Collins Senate confirms Doug Collins to be VA secretary Story by Mike Brest &hellip; <a title=\"Senate Confirms VA Secretary\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=166153\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate Confirms VA Secretary<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":166154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-link","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}