"Bicameral Support of Sen. Webb's GI Bill"
By: Lowell
Published On: 6/13/2007 1:37:52 PM
From Jim Webb's office comes great news (bolding added for emphasis):
Washington, DC ? On Thursday at 1:00pm, Senators Jim Webb (D-VA) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Congressmen Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Chris Carney (D-PA) and representatives from endorsing veterans organizations will express their support for the ?Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2007,? following Congressman Scott?s introduction of the bill in the House of Representatives.
The bill, introduced by Senator Webb on his first day in office, seeks to provide veterans of the 9/11 era with educational benefits similar to those provided to service members at the end of World War II. Senator Lautenberg, a WWII veteran and the most recent co-sponsor of S.22 in the Senate, attended college on the GI Bill.
Great job by Senator Webb, and thanks to Congressman Scott for his support on this important legislation!
Comments
Good news for the Sen. Webb's GI Bill (Hugo Estrada - 6/13/2007 2:37:21 PM)
This is only fair. If our government keeps requesting the ultimate sacrifice from our soldiers, our government should give them full educational benefits.
My work recently brought me in contact with a retiring (Catzmaw - 6/13/2007 7:43:51 PM)
Army couple - lifers whose son is deployed overseas. The young man is likely to be transferred from his current assignment to Iraq and his parents, both senior enlisted, are proud of his service and concerned that his lengthy deployment is harming his prospects for future education. They strongly support both this GI Bill and Webb's proposal that soldiers have to be allowed to stay home for as long as their overseas deployments lasted. Their son's been gone since early 2006 and is not expected home until June 2008, and his little girl has not seen him in all that time. America owes to this young man an opportunity to pursue his education upon his return and the opportunity to renew his relationship with his little daughter and to spend at least as much time with her as he has spent deployed.