Veterans have known for decades that Democrats in Congress didn’t represent us, but when Republicans passed Paul Ryan’s Budget cutting military retirement benefits, we learned that veterans aren’t represented by either party.
Senate Dems warm to House pension fix
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The Senate is likely to embrace a House-passed bill to restore cuts to military pensions that at first received a tepid reaction in the upper chamber, senior Democratic aides said Tuesday evening. Senate Democrats balked earlier in the day at the prospect of having to find a funding offset for their a plan to undo a cut to pension cost-of-living adjustments for military retirees. But as a snowstorm bears down on Washington and Congress prepares for a long Presidents Day recess, Democrats are warming to the House’s pension plan, which would offset its $7 billion cost by extending for a year the impact of sequestration on mandatory Medicare spending.
The Senate could vote on the House-passed bill as soon as Wednesday. “There is support among a number of Senate Democrats to take up and pass the House-passed COLA fix as soon as tomorrow,” a senior Democratic aide said Tuesday evening. “With no other passable options on the horizon, there is a realization that veterans shouldn’t be asked to wait any longer and an expectation that bipartisan support should coalesce in the coming hours.”