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The Department of Veterans Affairs said that new identification cards issued to veterans generally did not display Social Security numbers.
Mr. Avella said the city had now restricted the number of permits issued to veterans to perhaps 300 and made it difficult to get even those.
Two-year colleges offer flexible class schedules, enroll older students and can feel less intimidating — all important issues to veterans, who are usually older and often married with families.
The city complies with the state law on issuing permits to veterans, said Jessica Scaperotti, a spokeswoman for the city's health department, which issues permits for food pushcarts.
Kevin Bell is a researcher interested in the history of the Afghan mujahidin and issues related to veterans' health and PTSD.
He had hoped to subcontract the issue to two Senate veterans who know both Congress and health care better than anybody else in the country: Mr Daschle, whom he tapped to be both health secretary and health-reform tsar, and Senator Edward Kennedy.
1. Limited Credible Go-to Destinations Looking around, there are very few, if any, credible go-to-destinations for people to get involved in a number of important issues; to help veterans and military servicemen and women, animals, disadvantaged children, the environment, human trafficking.
This summer Congress will debate and vote on numerous issues of importance to veterans including funding levels for the VA, troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq, how to combat ISIS, critical job placement programs for veterans and much more.
Republicans, nervous about questions regarding President Bush's Air National Guard service, have raised the issue to revive accusations by some veterans that the discarding of medals dishonored those who served and died in the war.
Not surprisingly, with Washington focused on reducing the deficit, the president addressed the issue of possible cuts to veterans' programs in his remarks.
