Archive for May, 2008

Boca Grande, FL – Over 70 people attended Congressman Connie Mack’s Meet & Greet yesterday, May 24th, at the Gasparilla Inn.  For those of you who took time out of your busy schedules to join us at this great event, thank you. If you weren’t able to join us (and even if you did) please [...]

A bill authorizing an additional $66 million in federal funding for a new Cape Coral veterans outpatient clinic won broad bipartisan support Wednesday as it sailed through the House of Representatives with nary a vote in opposition.The bill, originally sponsored by Rep. Michael Michaud, D-Maine, swept through the House by a 416-0 margin and is [...]

CAPE CORAL, Fla. - Congressman Connie Mack praised Wednesday’s passage of legislation in the House of Representatives, authorizing an additional $66 million in federal funding for the new VA outpatient clinic in Cape Coral.The total amount of authorized funding for the project now stands at $131 million.

The House also approved legislation to increase veterans’ benefits [...]

By news-press.com

The House of Representatives authorized an additional $66 million in federal funding Wednesday for the VA outpatient clinic planned in Cape Coral, bringing the amount of authorized funding for the project to $131 million. The House also approved legislation to increase veterans’ benefits and to reimburse veterans for emergency care received at a non-VA [...]

Naples Daily News

By Staff Reports

Thursday, May 22, 2008 — The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill for $66 million in funding for a new Veterans Administration outpatient clinic in Cape Coral, according to U.S. Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fort Myers).

In a prepared statement, Mack praised passage of the legislation Wednesday that will authorize the [...]