Every Day is Veterans Day
Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders made the case in a Senate floor speech on Tuesday for passage of the most comprehensive legislation for veterans to come before the Senate in decades.
Sanders’ bill would improve VA health care and dental care, expand educational opportunities, help the VA address a disability claims backlog and help veterans find jobs. The measure also would undo a 1 percentage point cut in annual cost-of-living adjustments for military pensions that was part of a budget agreement late last year.
It is backed by the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and many other organizations.
