Mike Levin: “one of the areas which the Senator from Nevada has led us to is the question of concurrent receipts. We are going to…”

“one of the areas which the Senator from Nevada has led us to is the question of concurrent receipts. We are going to make some progress on that this year. I say that 90 percent of the credit for the progress we are going to make in that area belongs to the Senator from Nevada. He was modest in mentioning it here in terms of what is before the Senate. The success we have had in overcoming a veto threat from the administration--that if we finally allow people who are disabled to receive both the disability benefit as well as a retirement benefit and not take away one benefit when they receive the other--we were finally able to accomplish that because of the leadership of the senior Senator from Nevada. I want to ask him whether it is not accurate that one of the bills which awaits our consideration would be the conference report that accompanies the Defense authorization bill which contains the provision I just mentioned which would finally allow for at least the people who have 50-percent disability or more the concurrent receipt of both their disability benefit and their retirement benefit, and end the unfairness that you cannot get a retirement benefit.”