Mike Levin: “I happen to support the thrust of that, which is that we would not be putting our active duty retirees at a disadvantage…”

“I happen to support the thrust of that, which is that we would not be putting our active duty retirees at a disadvantage compared to our Reserve retirees. But we are also creating, in a sense, another inequality because the executive branch now would have no restriction administratively, whereas we apparently will retain this administrative cap. So I am concerned about that inequity that would be created between ourselves and the executive branch with the passage of this, and I simply want to point it out. I think the direction here is the right one. But I do think we are facing another inequity. We are creating, in effect, another equity by eliminating the executive branch statutory cap and eliminating our statutory cap, leaving in place the administrative cap that is already in there.”