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The House approved an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations bill Wednesday that would provide $15 million to the Defense Department to conduct medical clinical trials for veterans using psychedelics to treat traumatic brain injuries.
House Republicans on Tuesday called for employee discipline and potential firings after the discovery that tens of thousands of veterans’ disability cases were lost for months or years in the Department of Veterans Affairs claims systems due to software glitches.
COLDSPRING — U.S. Rep. Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas, told constituents in Coldspring last week that a government shutdown will depend on whether Congress passes funding bills everyone can agree with.
Luttrell addressed the group at the San Jacinto County Republican Party office on Sept. 11.
Currently, there are 12 appropriations bills, 1 of which has passed, he said.
WASHINGTON – As a highly decorated Navy SEAL training commander’s career hangs in the balance, three Republican lawmakers are demanding answers about the integrity of the investigation that is sending him to a punishment hearing, The Post has exclusively learned.
WASHINGTON – As a highly decorated Navy SEAL training commander’s career hangs in the balance, three Republican lawmakers are demanding answers about the integrity of the investigation that is sending him to a punishment hearing, The Post has exclusively learned.
Morgan Luttrell arrived in Congress this year with rare firsthand experience with the double-edged potential of AI.
Congressman Morgan Luttrell stopped by Livingston Tuesday morning at Starbucks off Highway 190 to discuss his first eight months in Congress, and his priorities for the remainder of the year.The Republican from Willis serves 800,000 people in District 8 from the counties of Polk, Trinity, Houston, San Jacinto, Walker, Harris, Leon, Madison, Grimes and Montgomery.
To begin to appreciate the marrow and character of which Morgan Luttrell is made, it's helpful to know about the chores that he and his identical twin brother performed as teens on the family’s quarter horse ranch near Houston.
During the school year, every morning before the school bus arrived at 6 a.m., the two had to feed and water all the family’s horses, which numbered as many as about 70.
When the brothers came home from school, they had to feed and water the horses again.
WASHINGTON, DC — The VA had received over 700,000 PACT Act-related claims as of last month, testing the department’s processing capacity and threatening to significantly increase the existing backlog of claims.
In June, the backlog—defined as claims that have taken longer than 125 days to complete—stood at approximately 227,000. The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) predicted that number will approach 400,000 by 2024.
There’s already a large body of smaller studies with encouraging results, he explained, and now bigger studies are building on them.
“MDMA with PTSD is furthest along the regulatory pipeline, so that seems to be poised to be the first out the gate, and then probably psilocybin for depression will be a couple years after that.”
Still, he added, there are caveats: The trials have not been diverse enough. The workforce to deliver psychedelic treatments is too small. And using psychedelics is not as simple as taking a pill.