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ARMED FORCES NEWS
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| Dennis Cullinan of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has outlined two legislative issues for VFW members to discuss with lawmakers during the summer congressional recess. First, the VA/HUD Appropriations bill is some $2 billion less than what a budget resolution called for. As a result, asserted Cullinan, more than 200,000 veterans will undergo rationed health care by being forced to wait over six months for appointments, and more than a million more will be turned away. He urged veterans to ask their legislators how this would affect service members fighting the war on terrorism. Second, he said to tell legislators that they expect their full support for concurrent receipt. Ask them to sign on to the discharge petition, and thank them if they have done so as well as to support HR-303 and S-392, the Retired Pay Restoration Act, that would provide full concurrent receipt for all disabled military retirees, he said. |
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