Here is some good news from capitol hill! After last week’s remarkable victory in the House of Representatives, today the bill passed the Senate by an overwhelming vote of 75-22. (You can see who voted for it and who didn’t here)
This bipartisan legislation, originally introduced by Senators Jim Webb (D-VA), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and John Warner (R-VA), is whole-heartedly endorsed by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the nation’s first and largest nonpartisan Iraq veterans organization, and all the leading Veterans Service Organizations.
As Craig Newmark points out on Huffington Post today, Bush and McCain claim that the Bill would hurt enlistment, but this has been exposed as a scam by the (non partisan) Congressional Budget Office here.
with the IAVA and urge the President Bush to sign the bill.
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