Shelley Berkley: “I want to thank Mr. Filner and Mr. Miller for their steadfast support for this legislation, and Ms. Baldwin for bringing…”

“I want to thank Mr. Filner and Mr. Miller for their steadfast support for this legislation, and Ms. Baldwin for bringing this to our attention for quite awhile now, waiting for us to act, and act we should. As Mr. Filner is well aware, having been to my congressional district, southern Nevada has one of the fastest growing veterans populations in the country, with nearly 218,000 veterans living in Clark County. And when I first started serving in Congress, I only had 160,000 veterans, so our veterans population has increased quite dramatically. It is even more important that former service men and women have the health care and benefits that they have earned. I am a cosponsor of this legislation which would allow veterans who have complete loss of sight in one eye due to a service-connected injury to receive increased disability compensation if they lose sight in the other eye, regardless of whether that loss of sight is service connected.”