It's that inequity that I want to address and that I have addressed each year that I have been here.

Even though you've announced your retirement from the Senate, that service that has been, as we say in the south, 'in your bones,' will continue.

There's a longstanding problem in our military survivor benefit system.

Interestingly, the cost is dropping. As the survivors increasingly diminish in number, the cost of this, actuarially projected, is dropping.

Has their matter been presented in some of the testimony here?

Obviously, we are in a tough fiscal environment, and obviously, there are many worthy pieces of legislation to be funded.

We ask Congress to allow medically-retired servicemembers and their families to maintain the Active Duty family TRICARE benefit for a transition period of 3 years following the date of medical retirement.

never in our history have so few borne so much of the burden of war for so long.

The Coalition supports S. 260, Senator Nelson's bill, to end the Dependency and Indemnity Compensation offset to the Survivor Benefit Plan.

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