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Strengthening America039s Counties Healthy safe and vibrant counties across America County News 2025 NACo Legislative Conference Padilla calls for common sense bipartisanship to tackle disasters mental health crisis Sen. Alex Padilla DCalif. started learning about wildfire damage firsthand as a Senate staffer in the 1990s which gave him experience and perspective seeing how counties responded after disasters. Helping veterans with an assist from counties is priority number one VA secretary says County officials can touch more lives than any member of Congress or any governor because they see their constituents every day said Doug Collins the new VA secretary.