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VetNet Staff Report
The new Poll question on the Veterans Network voting poll is a survey which asks:
When you were discharged from the military, what did you spend your first thousand dollars on, OR if you are currently active duty, where will you spend your first thousand dollars when discharged?
The link icon for the Poll can be found on the Veterans Network Main Channel Guide, lower right.
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WASHINGTON, DC
House Committee Chairman for Veterans Affairs Bob Filner has told Veterans Network that his House Bill #2254, The Agent Orange Equity Act of 2009 is now awaiting a source of funding.
The bill has been tagged as a Pay-Go bill by an appropriations committee, meaning that that bill can not move forward until funding is made available.
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Filner stated that because of the budgetary implications which will run in the billions, the funding may have to come from other VA programs or from other budget souces outside the VA and DOD.
The bill and its Senate companion bill 1939 would expand the requirements for presumed exposure to Agent Orange to blue water navy and possibly to veterans who served in Guam and Thailand. |
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