To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic".

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Bill ID: 119/hr/5362
Last Updated: August 5, 2026

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Rep. Loudermilk, Barry [R-GA-11]

ID: L000583

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The bill

To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic".

HR. 5362, 119th Congress — read as touching Hospitals & Health Systems.

The sponsor

Rep. Loudermilk, Barry [R-GA-11]

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The money

$66,000 raised

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The alignment

55% match to Project 2025

This bill's text tracks the "Department of Veterans Affairs" section, p. 679-681 of the Mandate for Leadership.

Bill's Journey to Becoming a Law

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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

July 20, 2026

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Bill Summary

Another masterpiece of legislative theater, brought to you by the same geniuses who think renaming a building constitutes actual governance. Let's dissect this farce, shall we?

**Main Purpose & Objectives:** The main purpose of HR 5362 is to rename a Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, after Colonel Michael H. Boyce. Because, clearly, the most pressing issue facing our nation's veterans is that a building doesn't have a sufficiently patriotic name. I mean, who needs actual healthcare reform when you can just slap a dead guy's name on a clinic?

**Key Provisions & Changes to Existing Law:** The bill consists of 11 findings, which are essentially a laundry list of Colonel Boyce's impressive military career and community service. Wow, what a hero! Too bad his legacy is being used as a cheap PR stunt. The only actual provision in the bill is Section 2, which changes the name of the clinic to the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic". Because, you know, that's going to make all the difference in the world.

**Affected Parties & Stakeholders:** The affected parties include the clinic itself, which will now have to waste resources updating its signage and stationery; Colonel Boyce's family, who get to bask in the reflected glory of their deceased relative's name being attached to a building; and the politicians who sponsored this bill, who get to pretend they're doing something meaningful for veterans. Oh, and let's not forget the actual veterans who will still have to navigate the same bureaucratic nightmare to get medical care.

**Potential Impact & Implications:** The potential impact of this bill is precisely zero. It won't improve healthcare outcomes for veterans, it won't increase funding for the VA, and it won't address any of the systemic issues plaguing our nation's veterans. But hey, at least the clinic will have a shiny new name! As for implications, this bill sets a precedent for more pointless naming exercises in the future. Because what's next? Renaming a post office after a local cat lady? It's a slippery slope, folks.

In conclusion, HR 5362 is a perfect example of legislative placebo effect – it looks like something is being done, but in reality, it's just a waste of time and resources. So, to all the politicians involved, I say: congratulations on managing to do absolutely nothing while pretending to care about veterans. You must be so proud. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have better things to do than watch you all pat yourselves on the back for this meaningless accomplishment.

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Rep. Loudermilk, Barry [R-GA-11]

Congress 119 • 2024 Election Cycle

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Rep. McCormick, Richard [R-GA-7]

ID: M001218

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Industry Impact

Which industries are materially affected by specific provisions in this bill. 1 helped.

  • Section 2 designates a Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic, which may increase access to healthcare services for veterans, potentially benefiting the hospitals and health systems industry by increasing demand for medical care.

Project 2025 Policy Matches

This bill shows semantic similarity to the following sections of the Project 2025 policy document.AI-enhanced analysis provides detailed alignment ratings.

Department of Veterans Affairs

Weak
Vector: 57%
Pages: 679-681AI Enhanced

AI Analysis:

"HR 5362 is a symbolic naming measure for a VA clinic, whereas Project 2025's VA section focuses on operational reforms, accountability, infrastructure realignment, workforce policies, and care delivery improvements. The bill does not address any of those substantive policy areas."

Key themes:VA facilityveterans recognitioncommunity engagement

— 646 — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise 3. Section 121 (developing and administering an education program that teaches veterans about their health care options available from the Department of Veterans Affairs). 4. Section 152 (returning the Office for Innovation of Care and Payment to the Office of Enterprise Integration with a joint governance process set up with the VHA). 5. Section 161 (overhauling Family Caregiver Program expansion, which has gone poorly, so that it focuses on consistency of eligibility and awareness that the most severely wounded or injured may require the program indefinitely). l Require the VHA to report publicly on all aspects of its operation, including quality, safety, patient experience, timeliness, and cost-effectiveness, using standards similar to those in the Medicare Accountable Care Organization program so that the government may monitor and achieve continuous improvement in the VA system more effectively. l Encourage VA Medical Centers to seek out relevant academic and private- sector input in their communities to improve the overall patient experience. Budget l Conduct an independent audit of the VA similar to the 2018 Department of Defense (DOD) audit to identify IT, management, financial, contracting, and other deficiencies. l Assess the misalignment of VHA facilities and rising infrastructure costs. The VHA operates 172 inpatient medical facilities nationally that are an average of 60 years old. Some of these facilities are underutilized and inadequately staffed. Facilities in certain urban and rural areas are seeing significant declines in the veteran population and strong competition for fresh medical staff. In 2018, Congress authorized an Asset Infrastructure Review (AIR) of national VHA medical markets to provide insight into where the VA health care budget should be responsibly allocated to serve veterans most effectively. However, the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee lacked the political will to act on the White House’s nominations of commission members, and this ultimately led to termination of the AIR process. The next Administration should seek out agile, creative, and politically acceptable operational solutions to this aging infrastructure status quo, — 647 — Department of Veterans Affairs reimagine the health care footprint in some locales, and spur a realignment of capacity through budgetary allocations. Specifically: 1. Embrace the expansion of Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) as an avenue to maintain a VA footprint in challenging medical markets without investing further in obsolete and unaffordable VA health care campuses. 2. Explore the potential to pilot facility-sharing partnerships between the VA and strained local health care systems to reduce costs by leveraging limited talent and resources. Personnel l Extend the term of the Under Secretary for Health (USH) to five years. Additionally, authority should be given to reappoint this individual for a second five-year term both to allow for continuity and to protect the USH from political transition. l Establish a Senior Executive Service (SES) position of VHA Care System Chief Information Officer (CIO), selected by and reporting to the chief of the VHA Care System with a dotted line to the VA CIO. l Identify a workflow process to bring wait times in compliance with VA MISSION Act–required time frames wherever possible. 1. Assess the daily clinical appointment load for physicians and clinical staff in medical facilities where wait times for care are well outside of the time frames required by the VA MISSION Act. 2. Require VHA facilities to increase the number of patients seen each day to equal the number seen by DOD medical facilities: approximately 19 patients per provider per day. Currently, VA facilities may be seeing as few as six patients per provider per day. 3. Consider a pilot program to extend weekday appointment hours and offer Saturday appointment options to veterans if a facility continues to demonstrate that it has excess capacity and is experiencing delays in the delivery of care for veterans. 4. Identify clinical services that are consistently in high demand but require cost-prohibitive compensation to recruit and retain talent, and examine exceptions for higher competitive pay.

Department of Veterans Affairs

Weak
Vector: 57%
Pages: 688-691AI Enhanced

AI Analysis:

"HR 5362 is a purely symbolic naming measure that does not substantively advance Project 2025's VA policy goals such as improving healthcare delivery, benefits, or administrative efficiency; it only recognizes an individual's service."

Key themes:Department of Veterans Affairsveteran recognitioncommemorative naming

— 655 — Department of Veterans Affairs ENDNOTES 1. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Division, VHA Directive 1003, “VHA Veteran Patient Experience,” April 14, 2020, pp. 1 and B-1. 2. S. 2372, VA Mission Act of 2018, Public Law No. 115-182, 115th Congress, June 6, 2018, https://www.congress. gov/115/plaws/publ182/PLAW-115publ182.pdf (accessed January 30, 2023). 3. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VA History Office, “VA History,” last updated May 27, 2021, https://www. va.gov/HISTORY/VA_History/Overview.asp (accessed January 28, 2023). 4. 38 U.S. Code § 1116, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/38/1116 (accessed January 28, 2023). 5. S. 3373, Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022 (Honoring Our PACT Act of 2022), Public Law No. 117-168, 117th Congress, August 10, 2022, https://www. congress.gov/117/plaws/publ168/PLAW-117publ168.pdf (accessed January 28, 2023). 6. H.R. 2471, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, Public Law No. 117-103, 117th Congress, March 15, 2022, Division S, Title I, https://www.congress.gov/117/plaws/publ103/PLAW-117publ103.pdf (accessed March 18, 2023). Known variously as the Department of Veterans Affairs Nurse and Physician Assistant Retention and Income Security Enhancement Act and the VA Nurse and Physician Assistant RAISE Act. 7. See note 5, supra.

Department of Transportation

Weak
Vector: 56%
Pages: 673-675AI Enhanced

AI Analysis:

"HR 5362 is a symbolic naming measure for a VA clinic and does not address the veteran‑centric mission, reforms, or policy concerns outlined in the Project 2025 VA section; the only connection is that both involve the Department of Veterans Affairs."

Key themes:Veterans AffairsVA clinicnaming/honorveteran recognition

— 641 — 20 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Brooks D. Tucker MISSION STATEMENT The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the primary provider of health care, benefits, and memorial affairs for America’s veterans and their families. The VA has the noble responsibility to render exceptional and timely support and services with respect, compassion, and competence. The veteran is at the forefront of every VA process and interaction. The VA must continually strive to be recognized as a “best in class,” “Veteran-centric”1 system with an organizational ethos inspired by and accountable to the needs and problems of veterans, not subservient to the parochial preferences of a bureaucracy. OVERVIEW At the end of the Obama Administration, the VA was held in low esteem both by the veterans it served and by the employees who served these former warriors. Eroding morale caused by the downstream effects of a health care access crisis in 2014 led to the resignation of Secretary Eric Shinseki and extensive oversight investigations by Congress from 2015–2016. By 2020, however, the VA had become one of the most respected U.S. agencies. This significant progress was due in part to the leadership of Secretary Robert Wilkie (2018–2021) and his team of political appointees and career senior executives, many of them veterans, who led the effort to ensure that the VA became “Veteran-centric” in its governance decisions and fostered a more positive work environment. This mindset translated into a department that was better attuned to employees’ and veterans’ needs and experiences in the daily operations of health care, benefits, — 642 — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise and memorial affairs. During that period, the VA received the largest number of watershed congressional authorizations to reform its health care and benefits that it had received since the post–Vietnam War years along with historic increases in annual appropriations, which have tripled since the last full year of the George W. Bush Administration. The current VA leadership team of Biden appointees has adopted some of their predecessors’ governance processes. However, they have not sustained the previous Administration’s commitment to a genuine “Veteran-centric” philosophy, most nota- bly with respect to the delivery of health care, and harbor a bias toward expanding the unionized federal employee workforce that has not always been aligned with a focus on “Veteran-centric” care. There also is growing concern in Congress and the veteran community that the VA is poorly managing and in some cases disregarding provisions of the VA MISSION [Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Out- side Networks] Act of 20182 that codify broad access for veterans to non-VA health care providers. Efforts to expand disability benefits to large populations without adequate planning have caused an erosion of veterans’ trust in the VA enterprise. Additionally, the current VA leadership is focusing very publicly on “social equity and inclusion” within departmental policy discussions toward ends that will affect only a small minority of the veterans who use the VA. For the first time, the VA is allowing access to abortion services, a medical procedure unrelated to military service that the VA lacks the legal authority and clinical proficiency to perform. In addition to continuing the grotesque culture of violence against the child in the womb, these sociopolitical initiatives and ideological indoctrinations distract from the department’s core missions. DEPARTMENTAL HISTORY Following the Civil War, state veterans homes were established to provide med- ical and hospital treatment for all injuries and diseases. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, “Congress established a new system of Veterans benefits, including programs for disability compensation, insurance for service personnel and Veterans, and vocational rehabilitation for the disabled”3 that was overseen by three different federal programs: the Veterans Bureau, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Pensions, and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. In 1921, Congress combined those programs into the Veterans Bureau. Following World War II, a national VA hospital system, much of which remains operational today, was established to care for millions of returning veterans. Following the Vietnam War, the VA’s federally owned and operated hospital network expanded again to meet the needs of the volunteer and draftee population. In the past two decades, the VA has purposely transitioned to leasing medical prop- erties rather than building expensive new facilities that can take years to complete and often experience budget overruns. As the nature of health care has evolved

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