Hold on Raoul. I saw Rep Young on MSNBC last night and told you about it on another thread. There was never any resistance to HR 2998 from the White House mentioned by Young, and in fact he said the President "enthusiastically supported" it. As we discussed before, it corrects a pay system which has been in place since 1981 which addresses double-dipping food allowances.
While I applaud your fervor in protecting your interest group (after all, I'm a Vet too), I'd be careful of being pandered to by the Democrats who would like nothing better than to drive a wedge between the Republican Party and one of its traditional constituencies. Believe me, you'll do vets and active duty personnel No favor by strengthening the hand of the Democrat Party in the upcoming elections. Work through your local representatives to promote your agenda. Just my two cents...
The leadership of the Republican party has, amazingly, allowed this issue to fester, thus presenting the Democrats the opportunity to drive in a wedge. The leadership has, apparently, decided to treat this as an issue of party discipline. It is, at best, ill-advised. They need to fix it, now, and remove this as an opportunity for Democrats to exploit.
Work through your local representatives to promote your agenda.
You are describing the same people that will not bring the bill fixing the problem, the very bill that an overwhelming majority of them sponsored, up for a vote. Why? Because the party leadership is apparently treating it as a party discipline issue.
This whole issue is a loser for the Republicans. It would be very easy for them to fix. Failure to do so will probably carry some sort of penalty for them in the next election. And if it does so, it will have been a self-inflicted wound.