Friday, April 04, 2008
Why won't John McCain support our troops??
Senators Jim Webb and Chuck Hagel proposed a new GI Bill which would bring back WWII-style standards of providing vets with full tuition, room and board. In a nutshell, the new GI-Bill would cover ALL expenses (tuition, room-board, books, lab fees, etc) to attend a state university. The existing college benefit for vets is outdated and doesn't keep up with inflation.
Why won't John McCain co sponsor this bill??? Senators Clinton and Obama already have.
Faced with unprecedented filibusters, the only way to ensure Senate passage of the GI Bill is to get 60 co-sponsors. So far, John McCain has refused. The same McCain who insists he supports our troops. The same McCain who is voting lockstep with the Bush administration (who have also resisted this bill). We need to get John McCain to lead — to sign now and signal to other Republican leaders that we should be strongly behind our vets.
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#posted by Rob Roschewsk @ 5:43 AM