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REPUBLICAN PRESS RELEASE

July 17, 2007

Democrats Make Billion Dollar Cut in Veterans Benefit

For more information, contact: Jeff Phillips (202) 225-3527



Washington, D.C. —In a party line vote over the objections of Republican Members, House Veterans Affairs’ Committee Democrats voted to cut nearly a billion dollars in pension benefits for wartime, elderly, indigent, severely disabled or house-bound American veterans to fund unprecedented benefits for World War II Filipino veterans.

Ranking Member Steve Buyer (R-Ind.) offered an amendment to defend the wartime, elderly, indigent, severely disabled or house-bound American veterans. The special monthly pension provides an additional $2,200 per year to the most severely disabled veterans. A 2006 decision by the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims required VA to begin paying benefits to these veterans.

“It is unconscionable that the democrats voted today to deny elderly, indigent, severely disabled or house-bound American veterans the special monthly pension in order to finance a new entitlement program to benefit Filipino veterans,” Buyer noted.

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