Defense bill a setback for concurrent receipt.President Bush has signed a fiscal year 2002 defense authorization bill that lets stand the prohibition prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages, the extreme of the regulatory liquor laws. The modern movement for prohibition had its main growth in the United States and developed largely as a result of the against concurrent receipt of longevity longevity (lŏnjĕv`ĭtē), term denoting the length or duration of the life of an animal or plant, often used to indicate an unusually long life. retired pay and VA disability compensation to military retirees unless the President proposes to end the ban and Congress then enacts legislation to take the cost from other government programs. National Commander George H. Steese, Jr. said he is "deeply disappointed that Congress appears to care so little about retired members of the armed forces, by again failing to rectify rec·ti·fy v. 1. To set right; correct. 2. To refine or purify, especially by distillation. a longstanding injustice Injustice American concentration camps 110,000 Japanese-Americans incarcerated during WWII. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 487] Bassianus murdered after being falsely accused. [Br. Lit. toward disabled military retirees. These brave men and women continue to have their retirement pay reduced by an amount equivalent to their VA disability compensation for injuries and sickness incurred while defending our country." "The final bill falls short of overturning the 110-year-old requirement that military retirees waive To intentionally or voluntarily relinquish a known right or engage in conduct warranting an inference that a right has been surrendered. For example, an individual is said to waive the right to bring a tort action when he or she renounces the remedy provided by law for such a portion of their retired pay equal to the amount they receive in veterans' disability compensation," said National Legislative Director Joseph A. Violante. "The President would have to submit a specific request in the annual budget and Congress would have to find a way to pay for it by cutting the estimated $3 billion to $4 billion a year from other federal programs." After nearly two months of intense negotiations to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions, the National Defense Authorization Act The National Defense Authorization Act is the name of a United States federal law that is enacted each fiscal year to specify the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense. for Fiscal Year 2002 (H.R. 2586, S. 1438) that emerged from a conference committee was stripped of a Senate amendment to eliminate outright the prohibition against concurrent receipt. The conference agreement was approved by a 209 to 6 vote in the House and passed the Senate by a vote of 96 to 2. "Veterans repeatedly hear from some legislators that concurrent receipt simply costs too much," said Commander Steese. "Given that Congress enacted more than $1.35 trillion One thousand times one billion, which is 1, followed by 12 zeros, or 10 to the 12th power. See space/time. (mathematics) trillion - In Britain, France, and Germany, 10^18 or a million cubed. In the USA and Canada, 10^12. in tax breaks last year, is considering a new round of costly tax reductions, and includes enormous amounts of money in appropriations bills for legislators' own pork-barrel projects, this excuse rings hollow." |
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