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WASHINGTON – Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), Chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs (DAMA), authored the Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act (H.R. 1530), which the House of Representatives passed today with bipartisan support. The legislation now heads to the Senate for consideration.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), Chairman of Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, was named by Speaker Kevin McCarthy as a conferee to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Committee. As part of the Conference Committee, made up of Senators and Representatives, Congressman Luttrell will work to resolve the bicameral differences in the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2024.
Morgan Luttrell arrived in Congress this year with rare firsthand experience with the double-edged potential of AI.
“I support the impeachment inquiry into President Biden over allegations of his abuse of power and corruption," said Congressman Luttrell. "While the impeachment process was weaponized during the Trump Administration, House Republican leadership has made this inquiry in order to gather hard line evidence that cannot be refuted. This is the proper next step to rooting out corruption and serious wrong doing by President Biden that has justifiably concerned Americans across the country.
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.
Of the many crises afflicting our nation under President Joe Biden, the most egregious is the human and drug trafficking being fueled by the cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) at the southern border, leaving no corner of our country untouched by this evil. Tragically, children and young adults are the most vulnerable victims of the cartels.
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.
Many veterans returning to North Texas after serving combat tours struggle with post-traumatic stress. At times it can be deadly. It's such a problem that some veterans are turning to psychedelic therapy outside the United States. Congress may soon direct the military to study the treatment.