(TNND) — “House lawmakers gathered this week to discuss more than a dozen bills meant to improve services for veterans and their survivors.

Rep. Morgan Luttrell, a Texas Republican who chairs the subcommittee that held the hearing, said the slate of bills would help veterans and their survivors navigate the Department of Veterans Affairs claims and appeals process and improve access to VA benefits.

Jim Whaley, a 20-year Army veteran and the CEO of advocacy group Mission Roll Call, applauded the lawmakers’ efforts to improve VA services.

“This has been something veterans, veteran support organizations, have been looking for and asking for for some time,” Whaley said. “And that is a more modern, more efficient, more effective VA.”

Whaley said he joined other veteran advocacy organizations last week in Washington, D.C., where they met with VA Secretary Doug Collins.

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