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Saxby Chambliss: “I am very sympathetic, even though I never served on Active-Duty in the military as you did. But this is very strange.…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2013
I am very sympathetic, even though I never served on Active-Duty in the military as you did. But this is very strange. It is very difficult to understand why we would penalize the men and women who have worn or do wear the uniform of the United States versus a very similar provision for the men and women who serve the Government of the United States in a very honorable way, but we are treating them very differently, it seems like almost discriminatorily.
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Saxby Chambliss
Republican · Georgia
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Dec 11, 2013

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