Congress approves spending bill with 3.5 percent raise for servicemembers (pass on this good news)

Stars and Stripes ^ | October 13, 2004 | Lisa Burgess

[Former Military Chick]

Please copy and paste this to all your friends and family asking that they send this to all their friends, hoping it will find it's way into the military members/family emails (I know it could be better but it is a start)

They need to know we care and this is good news for sure.

[Former Military Chick]

**PING**


Please copy and paste this to all your friends and family asking that they send this to all their friends, hoping it will find it's way into the military members/family emails (I know it could be better but it is a start)


They need to know we care and this is good news for sure.

[hiredhand]

GOOD news! I'll bet Kerry's taters are smoked over this... :-)

[WakeUpAndVote]

Not enough, these Men and Women are protecting our lives, freedoms and way of life.

Give till it hurts lawmaker!

[Jo5329]

Passed along to everyone in my address book.

[Former Military Chick]

I agree, but, hey it is a start. We need to start on our congress critters after the election. They MUST do better. If we band together we can make a difference for our troops.

[diamond6]

This is fabulous. I emailed this info to my soldier over in Iraq. This will definitely make his day.

Thanks for posting it.

[diamond6]

I agree. Our troops deserve to be pampered to the hilt, pampered financially in a big way.

[cookcounty]

Did Kerry take time out of his busy schedule to vote for it?

[prairiebreeze]

I too would like to see more. But it's a start.

Prairie

[imskylark]

We went 8 years under Clinton with extremely small pay raises. Clinton didn't want to give us anything. Republicans were the ones who got us the little we did get. The first raise Pres. Bush gave us, we were ecstatic. It was huge in our eyes! He is the one that cares about the military not Kerry. Kerry will treat the military with the same contempt Clinton did. Pres. Bush will continue to support us or should I say them since we are retired. (I served 8 years, hubby retired last year.)God bless our Troops!!

[LilRhody]

Did Kerry and Edwards vote on this bill?

[ancient_geezer]

Did Kerry take time out of his busy schedule to vote for it?

No-Show-Kerry failed to vote again.

[hiredhand]

Did Kerry and Edwards vote on this bill?

...no idea my friend. :-). Maybe somebody else here knows. It is a GOOD question though!

[ancient_geezer]

Neither Kerry nor Edwards voted.

click here for ===> Senate Roll Call vote on National Defense Authorization bill

[hiredhand]

Neither Kerry nor Edwards voted.

Wow...why does this not surprise me? ;-)

[Veloxherc]

3.5 % raise, it just keeps up with inflation from the 8 years during Clinton we got nothing.

I'll be happy when its a real RAISE 10% across the board. Than that will be a pay increase for the military.

[Lucy Lake]

Vote Counts:

YEAs 96

NAYs 0

Not Voting 4

Edwards (D-NC)
Graham (D-FL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kerry (D-MA)

[mystery-ak]

Nice raise...Hubby needs to go back to Iraq for increase in Sep Pay and Hazard Duty Pay...LOL...just kidding....

[DTogo]

A very good start, but the troops definitely deserve more. If I were Prez, I would have asked for a percentage pay raise scale in reverse order of rank: an E-2 gets a 10% increase graduating up to an E-10 who gets a 1% increase. Same for officers: an O-1 gets a 10% increase and an O-10 gets 1%.