Senate Passes Bill Boosting Payments to Veterans.
Source: nyt/ap
The Senate has sent the White House a bill giving nearly 4 million veterans and survivors a 1.7 percent increase in their monthly benefit payments next year.
The normally routine measure was delayed for weeks because an unidentified Republican senator objected to it.
That objection was lifted, without explanation, when Congress returned this week. The Senate then acted quickly to ensure that checks issued beginning in January reflect the adjustment for the higher cost of living.
The House approved the measure in July. The bill now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature.
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... I wonder how many more of those babies they have on the shelf?
Proceed, Senate!
Seeing this next to that story about that disgraced and demoted general, who will still get 200k a year, is infuriating. Better than nothing I guess. 
was. 
