Political Quotes

“It seems that every year at this time I come to the floor to offer an amendment on behalf of America's disabled veterans. The amendment I offer today, and have for many years, deals with concurrent receipt, a subject first brought to my attention many years ago by a disabled veteran. This is also called the veterans tax. A disabled veteran told me in Nevada many years ago that he wasn't allowed to receive both his retirement pay and disability compensation at the same time. I thought he misunderstood what the law was all about. His retirement pay was being offset dollar for dollar by the amount of disability compensation he received. He said it was a restriction found in U.S. law. I assumed he was wrong because it seemed so unfair. He was right. It was a law that had been in effect for more than 100 years. The law was on the books and hundreds of thousands of disabled veterans were having their retirement pay wiped out. No other disabled Federal retiree was being subjected to this tax; only those who retired from the U.S. military.”