U.S. Representatives Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) and Jerry McNerney (D-Stockton) today applauded the passage of the FY 2016 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill by the Senate Appropriations committee. The bill will fully fund the construction of the long-awaited community-based outpatient clinic in French Camp. Reps. Denham and McNerney urged the committee to include French Camp funding in a letter to the Sens. Mark Kirk (R-IL) Jon Tester (D-MT), Chairman and Ranking Member...
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Remember the old TV show “M.A.S.H.”? Then you know that military doctors have always gone where the action is. In times of conflict, advance treatment facilities are built close to the front so that soldiers can get what they need as quickly as possible. Too bad the same thinking doesn’t prevail for veterans. The Veterans Affairs clinic that was supposed to be built in French Camp nearly a decade ago was once again lopped from the budget this year. That upset Republican Rep. Jeff Denham, an Air ...
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California lawmakers are still trying to breathe life into a French Camp medical clinic designed to serve veterans living in the Northern San Joaquin Valley and Sierra Nevada foothills. Now, the resuscitation effort is up to the Senate. On Tuesday, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she will “continue to push” for California clinics including the one proposed for French Camp. “We need more VA health facilities in the...Valley to help veterans access the health care they have earned and deserv...
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San Joaquin County’s two representatives to Congress issued a joint appeal this week to a Senate Appropriations subcommittee to fund the proposed veterans medical facility in French Camp. It’s a last-ditch effort to restore $139 million in funding for the Community Based Outpatient Clinic that the full House stripped Wednesday from the Department of Veterans Affairs budget request for major construction for fiscal 2016. Reps. Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton, and Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, have been work...
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U.S. Representatives Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) and Jerry McNerney (D-Stockton) today authored a letter to the Sens. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Jon Tester (D-MT), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee, requesting that the Senate fund the VA’s Livermore Realignment Project in French Camp. “Funding for French Camp is long overdue,” said Rep. Denham. “Central Valley veterans have waited far too long for construction to be...
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U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) today issued the following statement in reaction to the release of the House Appropriations Committee’s Fiscal Year 2016 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill, which holds funding level for VA construction projects until the Department reforms the deeply troubled major construction program: “Years of mismanagement and neglect at the VA have led us to this point,” said Rep. Denham. “Just this month the agency told us that the De...
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Last week, U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) presented local Korean War Veteran Edwin Gene Benedix with a Purple Heart medal for his service in the U.S. Army. The Purple Heart is awarded to U.S. Armed Services members who, while serving in any capacity after April 5, 1917, have been wounded or killed in battle. "Several of his friends convinced him to contact my office when they learned that he'd never received his medal for his service in the Army during the Korean War," stated Denham...
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OAKDALE — It’s been more than 60 years since Gene Benedix was shot in the arm as he and other members of the 38th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division fought the North Koreans. On Tuesday, he received his Purple Heart during a ceremony at the Gladys L. Lemmons Senior Community Center before about 75 family members, friends and other well-wishers. Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, presented Benedix with his medal. Benedix said in an interview that he just never got around to filing the paper...
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Rep. Denham presents Ricky Pal with service medals at a ceremony attended by his wife and kids. U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) on Friday presented Rakesh “Ricky” Pal, a Wounded Warrior fellow and member of his staff who serves as military liaison, with a series of medals honoring his service during a surprise ceremony at Rep. Denham’s Modesto office. Rep. Denham presented Mr. Pal with his Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary...
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