National Legislative Committee
The Marine Corps League is proud to be a founding member of The Military Coalition.
The Marine Corps League serves on the TMC Veterans Committee
The Marine Corps League serves on the TMC Membership and Nominations Committee
From their website:
The Military Coalition is a group of 35 military, veterans and uniformed services organizations in joint pursuit of the following goals:
- Maintaining a strong national defense provided by recruiting and retaining skilled and highly capable personnel in the seven uniformed services;
- Maintaining uniformed services compensation and benefits at levels sufficient to attract and retain professional uniformed service members for careers of service to the Nation.
- Representing the interests of the entire uniformed services community, including members’ families and survivors, and responding to assaults upon the compensation and benefits earned by members of that community through years of dedicated service; and
- Educating the public on the extraordinary demands and sacrifices associated with a career in uniformed service, and the need to maintain a similarly unique system of compensation and benefits to attract and retain the kinds and numbers of high-quality personnel needed to meet the Nation’s short- and long-term defense requirements.
The philosophy of The Coalition is that, by working together on issues of mutual agreement, the participating organizations can harness the grassroots support of more than 5.5 million members plus their families and accomplish far more than by working on these initiatives separately. When one or more of the Coalition organizations is invited to testify before Congress, we frequently coordinate the testimony with the other Coalition associations and present it on behalf of the entire Coalition. This lends greater weight and unanimity to the testimony than if it were presented by any individual association
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Bills and Testimony
S.3726 National Veterans Strategy Act of 2026
Requiring the President to define veteran success and to develop metrics and working with key stakeholders including VSOs to implement a National Veterans Strategy, and report to Congress.
HR 6444 Blast Overpressure Research Task Force / S.800 Precision Brain Health Research Act
Both legislations focus on the brain health issue for veterans and service members, especially the blast exposure injuries. HR6444 requires VA and DoD to establish a specific taskforce to research and coordinate efforts to provide benefits to veterans or service members diagnosed with TBI/PTSD resulted from blast exposure; S800 focuses on using big-data to research low-level blast exposure.
The bill seeks to lower the barriers for veterans using community care and minimizing pre-approval requirements that may results in delay of access to care, especially under urgent mental health crisis, in which case the bill will require VA to ensure the veteran admitted or receive care within 48 hours.
S.3286 Veterans Appeals and Improvement Modernization Act
Congress is working with VSOs to improve the current AMA appeals process
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for concurrent receipt of veterans’ disability compensation and retired pay for disability retirees with combat-related disabilities, and for other purposes.
S.3033 Improving Access to Care for Rural Veterans Act
To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish partnerships between medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs and medical facilities in rural areas, and for other purposes.
HR 3482 Veterans Community Care Scheduling Improvement Act – To establish an online program through which an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs may schedule an appointment for a covered veteran with a non-Department health care provider under the Veterans Community Care Program, and for other purposes.
This Act was amended & approved in the HVAC and moved to the House for General Session.
HR 1971 Veterans SPORT Act – Veterans Supporting Prosthetics Opportunities and Recreational Therapy. Amends Title 38 to classify adaptive prostheses and terminal devices for sports and recreational activities as “medical services” under VA benefits ensuring eligible veterans receive these devices covered by the VA.
HR 1364 ASSIST Act of 2025 (and S 1726) – Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation. It broadens the VA’s definition of “medical services” under Title 38 to include crucial vehicle adaptations—such as ramp and kneeling systems, lowered floors, mobility lifts, raised doors/roofs, air conditioning, ingress/egress modifications, wheelchair tie‑downs, and adaptive seating—ensuring disabled veterans can safely drive or ride in customized vehicles.
HR 3219 GAMES Act – removes the current one-year post‑separation deadline in 10 U.S.C. § 2564a for veterans to participate in military adaptive sports programs like the Warrior and Invictus Games, allowing veterans to engage in these rehabilitative adaptive sports at any point after leaving service.
HR 5222 Korean War Combat Veterans Congressional Gold Medal Act 2018 (115th Congress) – This bill directs the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to make appropriate arrangements for the award of a single Congressional Gold Medal to the Korean War combat veterans, collectively, in recognition of their dedicated service during the Korean War.
The medal shall be displayed at the Smithsonian Institution, which is urged to make the medal available for display at other locations associated with the Korean War combat veterans.
S 1071 National Defense Authorization Act 2025 (Signed into Law)
HR 6047 Sherri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2025 – To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase the dollar amounts for the payment of certain disability compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation under the laws administered by the Secretary.
This Act was amended & approved in the HVAC and moved to the House for General Session.
HR 7027 Elimination of Recoupment of Separation Pay
HR 6595 Improve Care Availability for Veterans at DOD Facilities
HR 4145 Ensuring Justice for Camp Lejeune Victims Act to Amend the PACT Act of 2022