Patrick Moynihan said "I rise to note with great pleasure that I will have to support the conference committee report for the reason that the Senator from Rhode Island has just stated in response to the question from the Senator from New Mexico. As now provided, absent these technical corrections, we will have existing benefits to veterans taken away. I am correct in my understanding, am I not, that there are existing benefits which would be canceled in this way. I am not the least happy about the administration's decision to override the ruling of the general counsel of the Veterans' Administration, but that is history. What we have here is the correction that will really be a clear injustice to a many great persons, never intended by anybody. So, Mr. President, I will have to support the conference report and vote for the motion to table." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJuly 8, 1998

I rise to note with great pleasure that I will have to support the conference committee report for the reason that the Senator from Rhode Island has just stated in response to the question from the Senator from New Mexico. As now provided, absent these technical corrections, we will have existing benefits to veterans taken away. I am correct in my understanding, am I not, that there are existing benefits which would be canceled in this way. I am not the least happy about the administration's decision to override the ruling of the general counsel of the Veterans' Administration, but that is history. What we have here is the correction that will really be a clear injustice to a many great persons, never intended by anybody. So, Mr. President, I will have to support the conference report and vote for the motion to table.

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Patrick Moynihan

Illinois

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing support for a conference committee report related to veterans' benefits.

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