{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.rounds.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rounds-loeffler-introduce-bill-to-curb-veteran-homelessness", "Rounds, Loeffler Introduce Bill to Curb Veteran Homelessness", "2020-10-28", "2020", "2020-10", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "Mike Rounds", "R000605", "www.rounds.senate.gov", "rounds", "https://www.rounds.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "PIERRE \u2013 U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) introduced the Reducing Veteran Homelessness Act, a bill to make needed changes to two programs at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to prevent and decrease veteran homelessness.\n\n\u201cEvery single veteran should have a place to call home,\u201d said Rounds. \u201cWhile we\u2019ve made progress over the past decade at reducing the number of veterans experiencing homelessness, there are still too many vets without a roof over their heads. These are men and women who\u2019ve served and sacrificed for us\u2014they deserve every benefit they\u2019ve earned. Our legislation seeks to make sure every veteran has the resources they need to find a home.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe owe an immense debt of gratitude to America\u2019s veterans who put their lives at risk defending the freedoms we all enjoy,\u201d Loeffler said. \u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable that these heroes suffer from homelessness and lack access to resources they desperately need and earned. As a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans\u2019 Affairs, I am proud to introduce the Reducing Veterans Homelessness Act to combat this serious issue and ensure no American hero spends another night without a roof over their heads.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Reducing Veteran Homelessness Act would make improvements to the Grant and Per Diem (GPD) program and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program by:\n\nRequiring the VA to contract out vacant HUD-VASH caseworker positions to qualified community providers\u2014if a VA Medical Center has not used more than 15 percent of its HUD-VASH voucher allocation in the previous year and has had a HUD-VASH case manager position vacant for over 9 months;\n\nAllowing for an increase in the per diem payments for community participants in the GPD program; and\n\nAllowing GPD participants to utilize GPD funding to gain access to their local Homeless Management Information System in order to track outcomes of homeless veterans without having to pay out of pocket.\n\nHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) and Congressman Mike Levin (CA-49) introduced the companion legislation of the Reducing Veteran Homelessness Act in the U.S. House of Representatives.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-28T00:34:36Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.rounds.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rounds-loeffler-introduce-bill-to-curb-veteran-homelessness"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5076640993356705, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}