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United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs

Standing committee of the United States House of Representatives

Field	Value
name	House Veterans' Affairs Committee
type	standing
chamber	house
congress	119th
status	active
formed	January 3, 1947
chair	Mike Bost
chair_party	R
chair_since	January 3, 2023
ranking_member	Mark Takano
rm_party	D
rm_since	January 3, 2023
seats	26
majority1	R
majority1_seats	15
minority1	D
minority1_seats	11
oversight	Department of Veterans Affairs
counterpart	Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
website	(Republican)
(Democratic)

(Democratic) The standing Committee on Veterans' Affairs in the United States House of Representatives oversees agencies, reviews current legislation, and recommends new bills or amendments concerning U.S. military veterans. Jurisdiction includes retiring and disability pensions, life insurance, education (including the G.I. Bill), vocational training, medical care, and home loan guarantees. The committee oversees the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), veterans' hospitals, and veterans' cemeteries, except cemeteries under the Secretary of the Interior.

The Veterans' Affairs Committee does not have legislative jurisdiction over the following issues:

Tax status of veterans benefits and contributions to Veterans Service Organizations (Committee on Ways and Means);
Military retiree issues, including COLA's and disability pay (Committee on Armed Services);
CHAMPUS and Tri-Care (Committee on Armed Services);
Survivor Benefit Program (Committee on Armed Services);
Veterans Preference in Federal civil service hiring practice (Committee on Government Reform and Oversight);
Congressional charters for veterans service organizations (Committee on Judiciary);
Immigration issues relating to veterans (Committee on Judiciary); and
Issues dealing with Prisoners of War (POWs) and service members missing in action (MIAs) (Committee on Armed Services) The committee was created by Section 121(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (Public Law 79-601), which authorized a standing committee of 27 members.

Members, 119th Congress

Majority	Minority

Resolutions electing members: (Chair), (Ranking Member), (R), (D)

According to committee members' official online biographies, ten (Barrett, Bergman, Bost, Conaway, Hamadeh, Kiggans, Luttrell, Miller-Meeks, Self, and Van Orden) of the twenty-six members are veterans.

Subcommittees

Subcommittee	Chair	Ranking Member
Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs	Morgan Luttrell (R-TX)	Morgan McGarvey (D-KY)
Economic Opportunity	Derrick Van Orden (R-WI)	Chris Pappas (D-NH)
Health	Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA)	Julia Brownley (D-CA)
Oversight and Investigations	Jen Kiggans (R-VA)	Delia Ramirez (D-IL)
Technology Modernization	Tom Barrett (R-MI)	Nikki Budzinski (D-IL)

Leadership

Chairs of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and its predecessors are listed below.

Committee on Claims (1794–1880)

Uriah Tracy (F), CT 1794–1796
Dwight Foster (F), MA 1796–1800
Nathaniel Macon (D), NC 1800–1801
John Smith (F), CT 1801–1806
David Holmes (NP), VA 1806–1809
Richard Johnson (D), KY 1809–1810
Erastus Root (D), NY 1810–1811
Burwell Bassett (D), VA 1811–1812
Thomas Gholson (D), VA 1812–1813
Stevenson Archer (D), MD 1813–1814
Bartlett Yancey (NP), NC 1814–1816
Lewis Williams (NP), NC 1816–1828
William McCoy (D), VA 1828–1829
Elisha Whittlesey (NP), OH 1829–1838
John Chambers (W), KY 1838–1839
David Russell (W), NY 1839–1840
Joshua Giddings (ASW), OH 1840–1843
Joseph Vance (W), OH 1843–1846
John R. J. Daniel (D), NC 1846–1847
John A. Rockwell (W), CT 1847–1849
John R. J. Daniel (D), NC 1849–1853
Alfred Edgerton (D), OH 1853–1855
Joshua Giddings (ASW), OH 1855–1857
Samuel S. Marshall (D), IL 1857–1859
Mason Tappan (R), NH 1859–1861
Reuben Fenton (R), NY 1861-1863
James Hale (R), PA 1863–1864
Columbus Delano (R), OH 1864–1867
John Bingham (R), OH 1867–1869
William B. Washburn (R), MA 1869–1871
Austin Blair (R), MI 1871–1873
John B. Hawley (R), IL 1873–1875
John M. Bright (D), TN 1875–1880

Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims (1813–1826)

Samuel D. Ingham (Je. D), PA 1813–1814
John Chappell (SRWD), SC 1814–1816
John Rhea (D), TN 1816–1823
Peter Little (D), MD 1823–1826

Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (1825)

Name	Party	State	Start	End
	Jacksonian	Pennsylvania	1825

Committee on Military Pensions (1825–1831)

Party	State	Start	End
National Republican	Rhode Island	1825	1828
Jacksonian	Tennessee	1828	1829
National Republican	Massachusetts	1829	1830
Jacksonian	Virginia	1830	1831

Committee on Revolutionary Claims (1825–1974)

Robert Allen (D), TN 1825–1827
George Wolf (D), PA 1827–1829
Henry Muhlenberg (JD), PA 1829–1838
Robert Craig (D), VA 1838–1840
Joseph Randolph (W), NJ 1840–1841
Hiland Hall (W), VT 1841–1843
Richard D. Davis (D), NY 1843–1845
Joseph Johnson (D), VA 1845–1847
Daniel P. King (W), MA 1847–1849
Cullen Sawtelle (D), ME 1849–1851
Moses Macdonald (D), ME 1851–1853
Rufus Peckham (D), NY 1853–1855
David Ritchie (R), PA 1855–1857
Samuel S. Cox (D), OH 1857–1859
George Briggs (AP), NY 1859–1861
R. Holland Duell (R), NY 1861–1863
Hiram Price (R), IA 1863–1865
Kellian Whaley (R), WV 1865–1867
Hamilton Ward (R), NY 1867–1869
Sempronius H. Boyd (R), MO 1868–1871
Alexander S. Wallace (R), SC 1871–1873

[[United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions|Committee on Invalid Pensions]] (1831–1946)

Tristam Burges (NP), RI 1831–1835
Jesse Miller (D), PA 1835–1836
James M. H. Beale (D), VA 1836–1837
William Taylor (D), NY 1837–1839
Sherrod Williams (W), KY 1839–1841
Calvary Morris (W), OH 1841–1843
Jacob Brinkerhoff (D), OH 1843–1846
Preston King (D), NY 1846–1847
Henry Nes (I), PA 1848–1849
Andrew S. Fulton (W), VA 1849–1850
Shepherd Leffler (D), IA 1850–1852
Isham G. Harris (D), TN 1852–1853
Thomas A. Hendricks (D), IN 1853–1855
Andrew Oliver (D), NY 1855–1857
Joshua Jewett (D), KY 1857–1859
Reuben Fenton (R), NY 1859–1861
Alfred Ely (R), NY 1861–1863
Kellian Whaley (R), WV 1863–1864
Sidney Perham (R), ME 1864–1869
John F. Benjamin (RR), MO 1869–1871
Jesse H. Moore (R), IL 1871–1873
Jeremiah M. Rusk (R), WI 1873–1875
George A. Jenks (D), PA 1875–1877
Americus V. Rice (D), OH 1877–1879
Alexander H. Coffroth (D), PA 1879–1880
Thomas M. Browne (R), IN 1880–1882
Courtland C. Matson (D), IN 1883–1889
Edmund N. Morrill (R), KS 1889–1891
Augustus N. Martin (D) IN 1891–1895
John Pickler (R), SD 1895–1896
George W. Ray (R), NY 1896–1899
Cyrus A. Sulloway (R), NH 1899–1911
Isaac R. Sherwood (D), OH 1911–1919
Charles Fuller (R), IL 1919–1925
Richard N. Elliott (R), IN 1925–1926
William I. Swoope (R), PA 1926–1927
William T. Fitzgerald (R), OH 1927–1929
John M. Nelson (R), WI 1929–1931
Mell G. Underwood (D), OH 1931–1936
John Lesinski (D), MI 1937–1945
Augustine B. Kelley (D), PA 1946

[[United States House Committee on Revolutionary Pensions|Committee on Revolutionary Pensions]] (1831–1880)

Henry Hubbard (D), NH 1831–1833
Daniel Wardwell (R), NY 1833–1837
William S. Morgan (D), VA 1837–1839
John Taliaferro (W), VA 1839–1843
George O. Rathbun (D), NY 1843–1844
David L. Seymour (D), NY 1844–1845
Richard Brodhead (D), PA 1845–1847
William Cocke (D), TN 1847–1849
Loren P. Waldo (D), CT 1849–1851
John Millson (D), VA 1851–1853
William M. Churchwell (D), TN 1853–1855
Jacob Broom (AW), PA 1855–1856
John Hickman (R), PA 1856–1860
John F. Potter (R), WI 1860–1861
Charles Van Wyck (R), NY 1861–1863
DeWitt Littlejohn (R), NY 1863–1865
Walter D. McIndoe (R), WI 1865–1867
Benjamin F. Loan (Rad), MO 1867–1869
John T. Deweese (D), NC 1969
Charles W. Willard (R), VT 1869–1873
Lazarus D. Shoemaker (R), PA 1873–1875
Eppa Hunton (D), VA 1875–1877
Levi A. Mackey (D), PA 1877–1879
John Whiteaker (D), OR 1879–1880

Committee on War Claims (1873–1946)

William Lawrence (R), OH 1873–1875
John R. Eden (D), IL 1875–1879
Edward S. Bragg (D), WI 1879–1881
Leonidas C. Houk (R), TN 1881–1883
George W. Geddes (D), OH 1883–1887
William J. Stone (D), KY 1887–1889
Ormsby B. Thomas (R), WI 1889–1891
Frank E. Beltzhoover (D), PA 1891–1895
Thaddeus M. Mahon (R), PA 1895–1907
Kittredge Haskins (R), VT 1907–1909
Charles B. Law (R), NY 1909–1911
Thetus W. Sims (D), TN 1911–1913
Alexander W. Gregg (D), TX 1913–1919
Benjamin K. Focht (R), PA 1919–1921
Bertrand Snell (R), NY 1921–1923
James G. Strong (R), KS 1923–1930
Miles C. Allgood (D), AL 1931–1934
Wilburn Cartwright (D), OK 1935
John H. Hoeppel (D), CA 1936
Joseph A. Gavagan (D), NY 1937
Alfred F. Beiter (D), NY 1938
Reuben T. Wood (D), MO 1939–1941
Joseph A. Gavagan (D), NY 1941–1944
Edward J. Hart (D), NJ 1944
Clair Engle (D), CA 1945–1946

Committee on Pensions (1880–1946)

Party	State	Start	End
Democratic	Oregon	1880	1881
Republican	Illinois	1881	1883
Democratic	Alabama	1883	1885
Democratic	Michigan	1885	1887
Democratic	New York	1887	1889
Republican	New York	1889	1891
Democratic	Missouri	1891	1894
Democratic	Georgia	1894	1895
Republican	New Jersey	1895	1911
Democratic	Alabama	1911	1914
Democratic	Ohio	1914	1919
Republican	Tennessee	1919	1921
Republican	Minnesota	1921	1930
Republican	Iowa	1930
Democratic	South Carolina	1931	1938
Democratic	Washington	1939	1942
Democratic	New York	1943	1946

Committee on World War Veterans Legislation (1924–1946)

Name	Party	State	Start	End
	Republican	South Dakota	1924	1931
	Democratic	Mississippi	1931	1946

Committee on Veterans' Affairs (1947–present)

Party	State	Start	End
Republican	Massachusetts	1947	1949
Democratic	Mississippi	1949	1953
Republican	Massachusetts	1953	1955
Democratic	Texas	1955	1973
Democratic	South Carolina	1973	1975
Democratic	Texas	1975	1981
Democratic	Mississippi	1981	1995
Republican	Arizona	1995	2001
Republican	New Jersey	2001	2005
Republican	Indiana	2005	2007
Democratic	California	2007	2011
Republican	California	2011	2017
Republican	Tennessee	2017	2019
Democratic	California	2019	2023
Republican	Illinois	2023	present

Name	Party	State	Start	End
	Democratic	Mississippi	1947	1949
	Republican	Massachusetts	1949	1953
	Democratic	Texas	1953	1955
	Republican	Massachusetts	1955	1960
	Republican	Ohio	1961	1965
	Republican	Indiana	1965	1969
	Republican	California	1969	1973
	Republican	Arkansas	1973	1987
	Republican	New York	1987	1989
	Republican	Arizona	1989	1995
	Democratic	Mississippi	1995	1997
	Democratic	Illinois	1997	2007
	Republican	Indiana	2007	2011
	Democratic	California	2011	2012
	Democratic	Maine	2012	2015
	Democratic	Florida	2015	2016

Acting	Democratic	California	2016	2017
	Democratic	Minnesota	2017	2019
	Republican	Tennessee	2019	2021
	Republican	Illinois	2021	2023
	Democratic	California	2023	present

Past committee rosters

118th Congress

Majority	Minority

Resolutions electing members: (Chair), (Ranking Member), (D), (R)

According to committee members' official online biographies, seven (Bergman, Brown, Ellzey, Luria, Miller-Meeks, Nehls and Sablan) of the thirty-one members are veterans.

;Subcommittees

Subcommittee	Chair	Ranking Member
Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs	Morgan Luttrell (R-TX)	Chris Pappas (D-NH)
Economic Opportunity	Derrick Van Orden (R-WI)	Mike Levin (D-CA)
Health	Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA)	Julia Brownley (D-CA)
Oversight and Investigations	Jen Kiggans (R-VA)	Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN)
Technology Modernization	Matt Rosendale (R-MT)	Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL)

117th Congress

Majority	Minority

Resolutions electing members: (Chair), (Ranking Member), (D), (R), (D), (D), (R), (D), (R)

According to committee members' official online biographies, ten (Banks, Bergman, Brown, Ellzey, Gallego, Lamb, Luria, Miller-Meeks, Nehls and Sablan) of the thirty-one members are veterans.

;Subcommittees

Subcommittee	Chair	Ranking Member
Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs	Elaine Luria (D-VA)	Troy Nehls (R-TX)
Economic Opportunity	Mike Levin (D-CA)	Barry Moore (R-AL)
Health	Julia Brownley (D-CA)	Jack Bergman (R-MI)
Oversight and Investigations	Chris Pappas (D-NH)	Tracey Mann (R-KS)
Technology Modernization	Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN)	Matt Rosendale (R-MT)

116th Congress

Majority	Minority

Sources: (Chair), (Ranking Member), (D), (R), (D), (D)

According to committee members' official online biographies, thirteen (Banks, Bergman, Bost, Cisneros, Dunn, Lamb, Luria, Peterson, Roe, Rose, Sablan, Steube, Watkins) of the twenty-eight members are veterans.

;Subcommittees

Subcommittee	Chair	Ranking Member
Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs	Elaine Luria (D-VA)	Mike Bost (R-IL)
Economic Opportunity	Mike Levin (D-CA)	Gus Bilirakis (R-FL)
Health	Julia Brownley (D-CA)	Neal Dunn (R-FL)
Oversight and Investigations	Chris Pappas (D-NH)	Jack Bergman (R-MI)
Technology Modernization	Susie Lee (D-NV)	Jim Banks (R-IN)

115th Congress

Majority	Minority

Sources: (Chair), (D), (R), (D), (D)

According to committee members' official online biographies, eleven (Banks, Bergman, Bost, Coffman, Dunn, Higgins, Lamb, Roe, Sablan, Walz, Wenstrup) of the twenty-five members are veterans.

114th Congress

Majority	Minority

Resolutions electing Republican members: (Chairs) Resolutions electing Democratic members: , , and

References

"House Committee on Veterans Affairs".
"Committee on Veterans' Affairs – 119th Congress: A Resolution". Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
(January 15, 2025). "Ranking Member Takano Announces Vice Ranking Member, Subcommittee Ranking Members and Subcommittee Membership Assignments for the 119th Congress". The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Democrats.
(January 16, 2025). "Chairman Bost Announces 119th Congress Subcommittee Chairs, Committee Membership, Veteran First Agenda for Veterans and their Families".
(1982). "History of House Committees Considering Veterans' Legislation". U.S. Government Printing Office.
(January 30, 2023). "Chairman Bost Announces 118th Congress Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee Chairs".
"Ranking Member Takano Announces Vice Ranking Member and Subcommittee Assignments and Ranking Members for the 118th Congress {{!}} The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs".
(11 July 2016). "CONGRESS: Corrine Brown indictment makes Mark Takano ranking Democrat on veterans' affairs committee". The Press-Enterprise.

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