"Our country has always made promises to the men and women who serve in our armed forces. But, in the last few years, too many of those promises have turned out to be empty rhetoric, even as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have created a whole new generation of vets.

As the voice for more 117,000 veterans in Hawaii—63,000 in the First Congressional District alone—I'm going to do everything I can to keep America's promises."

Please click on links to access various resources below that address this issue.

News Releases

• Honolulu Firm Wins $278,000 Grant for Oahu Homeless Vet Assistance (June 25, 2007)
• House Approves Major Increase In Veterans Healthcare Funding (June 15, 2007)
• Abercrombie Amendment Would Help the Families of Wounded Warriors (March 20, 2007)
• Abercrombie: "Army and Marine Corps Have Been Badly-Used and Overdeployed" Incoming Armed Service Subcommittee Chairman Opposes Additional Reserve-National Guard Call-ups (December 20, 2006)
• Rep. Neil Abercrombie Statement on the Death of Maj. Trane McCloud (December 5, 2006)
• Abercrombie is co-chair of POW/MIA Caucus (June 21, 2006)

Guest Editorials

• Veterans Day 2006; Keeping the Promises

Bills Co-sponsored or Sponsored by Congressman Abercrombie

• H.R. 358, Veterans’ Grave Marker Benefit Reauthorization Act
• H.R. 579, Military Retirees Health Care Protection Act
• H.R. 402, Veterans Automatic COLA Act
• H.R. 784, To amend title 10, United States Code, to change the effective date for paid-up coverage under the military Survivor Benefit Plan
• H.R. 1472, Disabled Veterans Fairness Act
• H.R. 634, American Veterans Disabled for Life Commemorative Coin
• H.R. 728, Veterans’ Reassignment Protection Act of 2007
• H.R. 333, Disabled Veterans’ Tax Termination Act