The department is about 15% ahead of its claims workload pace from last summer.
Karen Brazell currently works as a senior VA advisor and would serve as the department's next Under Secretary for Benefits.
The appropriations plan would add more than $80 billion to the current VA funding level, giving the department its biggest budget ever.
Shiny mirrored cubes — a flashy new curriculum-based therapeutic tool — have been installed at more than two dozen Air Force bases.
