(Source: Julia Brownley) WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village) offered two amendments during a House Veterans' Affairs Committee mark-up. The Brownley amendments would help veterans start families and improve health care services for catastrophically-disabled or blinded veterans. Brownley's first amendment to the Fair Treatment for Families of Veterans Act (H.R. 4087) would have authorized the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide veterans -- who have service-connected reproductive injuries -- with coverage for up to three cycles of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and pay the cost for up to three domestic adoptions. Under a 1993 law, the VA is...
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