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Legion Moves to Accelerate Concurrent Receipt National American Legion commander Ronald F. Conley is activating members nationwide to urge their representatives to sign a discharge petition filed by Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Ga., to bring the Retired Pay Restoration Act out of the House Armed Services Committee and to the full House for a vote. It would take 218 signatures to do that, and the measure has 297 House co-sponsors, an ample pool from which to garner enough signatures. "More than a half-million military retirees with service-connected disabilities receive a cut in their retired pay equal to the amount of their disability compensation, and that's wrong," Conley said. "No other federal retiree with a disability related to his or her military service is discriminated against in this manner. It's time for members of Congress to stop this travesty the sooner the better." |
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