Barack Obama/Jim Webb vs John Mccain - Veteran GI Bill
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Today, three-quarters of the Senate voted to support a new GI Bill for the troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Following the 256-166 victory in the House last week, the GI Bill has achieved almost unparalleled momentum. A number of Senators actually changed their NO votes to AYE, as it became clear that this vote was going to be a landslide: 75-22.
These 75 Senators stood with Senators Jim Webb and Chuck Hagel in favor of a new bipartisan GI Bill that actually covers the cost of college. As these Senators return home to honor troops and veterans during the Memorial Day recess, they can proudly point to their vote this week as proof of their
commitment to our troops. IAVA thanks each and every one of them. For the 22 Senators opposing this crucial legislation, I can only express my disappointment. For them, partisanship came before patriotism. (Three Senators were not present for the voting, including Senator Kennedy, who was recently
diagnosed with a brain tumor, and Senator McCain, who was at a fundraising event in California.) This was truly a historic vote, and the numbers give me tremendous confidence for the future of the GI Bill. We had a little debate at IAVA HQ about whether to call the margin "powerful" or "overwhelmin
g" - but the real adjective is this: VETO-PROOF. The President has threatened on multiple occasions to veto the emergency supplemental if it includes war timelines or other policy restrictions, or if it goes over his arbitrary budget cap. The Administration has also expressed objections to the GI
Bill based on concerns about retention - basically, they believe that if a GI Bill benefit is too good, it'll reward veterans too richly for their service and draw them away from re-enlisting. You can read my response to that nonsensical argument here. So with a veto threat looming, we haven't won
yet. There is one final hurdle--and it is a big one: the President. When the politicians return to Washington after Memorial Day, Congress will get a final version of the war funding bill to the President, and President Bush will have to decide whether he is with Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, or ag
ainst them. We've seen today that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle can come together to support our troops. With your help, we can ensure the President will do the same. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-rieckhoff/75-senators-stand-with-ve_b_103155.html
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Dems! Fools. Americans get more stupid everyday. Reps and Dems took away the benefits and this guy is feeding us the s--- sandwich.
(ABC,NBC,CBS,PBS)And no, I don't consider Hannity and Colmes is a left wing show, but I'll say it anyway...just I can say the equally intelligent "Takes one to know one".
McCain also voted for LOWBALL VA health budgets from 2003-2007 as U.S. troops returned with amputations, disfiguring burns, traumatic brain injuries, blindness, deafness,
PTSD!
McCain voted for ONLY 20% of DAV bills in 2006, ONLY 25% in 2005! McCain voted to kill a bill to help vets' kids born paralyzed (National Academy of Science found dioxin association with increased incident of spina bifida in Vietnam veterans' children)! Jim Hudson RVN 69-70
Biden" If you tell me I've got to take away the protection for these kids, in order to win the election, some things aren't worth it! Some things are worth losing over!
Obama voted against the funding anyway!
300,000 PTSD or depression. Troop suicides double peers' rate. 1,000s suffer burns, paralysis, disease, near mortal wounds. 4,700: dead.
McCain said no to billions for VA health, TBI research,
PTSD care. He'd ration vets care for combat injured, leaving millions without care. He opposed New GI Bill: 'too generous.'
DAV: McCain with 20% of the time, Obama 85%. Being a vet not same as being there for vets. Jim Hudson Vietnam 69-70
Mccain didn't sign it because the timeline was put in. I've researched both canidates
I'm at the point where I can't even watch McCain anymore. He's appauling.
In 2008, he did not vote at all on the Post-9/11 Veterans Education Assistance Act, yet spoke out against it. This bill was a bipartisan effort by Sens. Jim Webb, D-Va., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and would have paid a veterans tuition rather than only some of it, as the GI Bill does today.