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Lindsey Graham: “The way the program works, you can be a temporary employee working 16 hours, work a year, then get health care, and you…”

On the recordJune 2, 2004
The way the program works, you can be a temporary employee working 16 hours, work a year, then get health care, and you pay a premium. If you work 16 hours a week, you can get full-time health care benefits paying a premium. What a Guard member does, he works 2 days a month, 2 weeks a year, and 40 percent of the people in Afghanistan and Iraq come out of that pool. Now they are getting killed. It is not an average, everyday part-time job. The people who are left behind, the families, take a pay cut. The average Guard and Reserve member, when they are called to active duty their pay goes down, but they don't complain. They go, I say with all due respect.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Discussing the challenges faced by Guard and Reserve members during active duty.

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