Political Quotes

“last Congress I, along with Senator Inouye, introduced S. 2357, ``The Armed Forces Concurrent Retirement and Disability Payment Act of 2000.'' Our bill addressed a 110 year old injustice that requires some of the bravest men and women in our nation--retired, career veterans, to essentially forgo receipt of a portion of their retired pay if they received a disability injury in the line of service. I am extremely disappointed that we did not take the opportunity to correct this long-standing inequity in the 106th Congress. I rise today, to again introduce a bill along with my colleagues Senators Hutchinson, Landrieu, Dorgan, Conrad, Johnson, McCain, Bingaman, Inouye, Shelby, Snowe and Daschle, that will correct this inequity for veterans who have retired from our Armed Forces with a service-connected disability. Our bill will permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service connected disability to receive military retired pay concurrently with veterans' disability compensation.”