Vet Voice Runs Full-Page Ad to Zinke, in Boston Globe
BOSTON, MA – As Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke arrives in Boston, a major veterans group is running a full page ad in the Boston Globe, urging him to show leadership on the now-expired Land and Water Conservation Fund. The ...
VET VOICE FOUNDATION SLAMS LACK OF LEADERSHIP IN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, AS LWCF EXPIRES
Washington, DC - Today, the Land and Water Conservation Fund has expired, due to Congressional inaction to reauthorize the program, despite a bipartisan agreement in a key House committee to do so. The LWCF helps fund protect...
Vet Voice Encouraged by First Step Towards Permanent Re-authorization of LWCF
WASHINGTON, DC - The Vet Voice Foundation, which has long championed protection of public lands and historic battlefields, is cheering a compromise deal, now moving ahead in the House of Representatives, that would permanently reauthori...
New Billboard Demands Zinke Answer Veterans’ Questions on Status of Long-Awaited Park
Ten Years after Zinke Promised a Veterans Peace Park, Site is Still Vacant and is Part of an Interior Inspector General Investigation into Zinke’s Shady Real Estate Deal Today, Vet Voice Foundation announced a billboard near Interi...
Vet Voice Foundation Responds to Ryan Zinke’s Outburst
A veterans foundation is speaking out in response to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s verbal lashing of a woman who asked the former Navy SEAL why he would not acknowledge the role of climate change in recent wildfires. “You h...
Senator Cantwell & Local Veterans Hold Press Conference Urging Congress to Save Land and Water Conservation Fund
(Seattle, WA) - On Monday August 13th, local veterans and Senator Maria Cantwell will hold a press conference at Green Lake Park to urge Congress to sign on to a bill to permanently reauthorize the Land Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) tha...
Vet Voice Foundation statement on Senate passage of clean NDAA
WASHINGTON, DC (August 1, 2018) – Over the past several weeks, veterans have voiced their stern opposition to harmful anti-environmental riders - fueled by political motives – unnecessarily delaying the passing of...
VVF statement on NDAA clearing House Rules
Washington, D.C. – Over the past several weeks, veterans came out against the extemporaneous, anti-environmental riders that have weighed down the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act. More than 500 veterans signed ont...
Statement of Major General (Ret,) Paul D. Eaton on the National Defense Authorization Act
WASHINGTON,DC (July 26, 2018) – Veterans from around the country have made it clear that controversial, anti-public lands and anti-environmental riders like those attacking sage grouse and the endangered species act, have no ...
Vet Voice Foundation releases position paper highlighting military & veteran community support for LWCF
July 23, 2018 (Washington D.C.) Vet Voice Foundation released today a position paper highlighting why the military veteran community supports the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and pushes Congress to reauthorize and fully fund t...