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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 04:12 AM Oct 2014

Bill to shield veterans services from government shutdown advances

http://www.stripes.com/news/bill-to-shield-veterans-services-from-government-shutdown-advances-1.311230

Bill to shield veterans services from government shutdown advances
By Travis J. Tritten
Stars and Stripes
Published: October 30, 2014

WASHINGTON — A bill to secure the funding of veterans’ services in a time of uncertain federal budgets won an initial legislative victory on Capitol Hill this week.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he will call a vote before the end of the year on the Putting Veterans Funding First Act. Reid announced this in a letter sent Tuesday to the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, who is in the midst of a tough re-election battle.

Reid’s green-light on the vote was no doubt a midterm run-up gift to Begich — he called the senator a “tireless advocate” of the state’s 73,000 vets — but it also answered the calls of groups such as Disabled American Veterans, who say veterans need to know health, benefits and other services will not cease due to a budget impasse in Congress or a shutdown of the federal government, which have both been threats in recent years due to political gridlock.

In his letter, Reid said he decided to allow the floor vote to coincide with Veterans Day.
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Bill to shield veterans services from government shutdown advances (Original Post) nitpicker Oct 2014 OP
That's almost funny. Turbineguy Oct 2014 #1
protection DustyJoe Oct 2014 #2

Turbineguy

(38,393 posts)
1. That's almost funny.
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 06:03 AM
Oct 2014

Protecting the Veterans from republicans/teabaggers. The kind of legislation needed in a failed state.

DustyJoe

(849 posts)
2. protection
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 10:23 AM
Oct 2014

Protection from politicians who use VA disability and SS payment delays as a threat to get their way is a good thing. The April 2012 and August 2013 threats used by the administration the past few years illustrates how susceptible these benefits are to politicians in a snit.

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