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Specific Bills:
H.R. 208 (National Guardsmen and Reservists Parity for Patriots Act.) Introduced by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) correcting current early retirement laws to include mobilizations since Sept. 11. 2001. While current laws credit 90 day deployments (within a fiscal year) with a 90 day reduction, eligibility only started on January 28, 2008. (166) Cosponsors
S.831 (National Guard and Reserve Retired Pay Equity Act of 2009.) Introduced by Sentors John Kerry(D-Mass.) and Saxby Chambliss(R-Ga.) correcting current early retirement laws to include mobilizations since Sept. 11. 2001. While current laws credit 90 day deployments (within a fiscal year) with a 90 day reduction, eligibility only started on January 28, 2008. (34) Cosponsors
H.R.2254 (Agent Orange Equity Act of 2009) Introduced by Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, the bill would clarify presumptions relating to the exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the Republic of Vietnam including veterans who served offshore, or flew in the Vietnam airspaces. (257) Cosponsors
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Specific equipment or policy issues:
New Start Treaty(Nuclear weapon reduction and verification): Help provide the U.S. Senate with the badly needed negotiations records between the State Department and the Russian Federation. These records will provide background information needed for Senators to review prior to markup and approval of a ratification resolution.
C-17 Globemaster III: We can't afford to stop production at 205 aircraft. America’s need for airlift continues to grow. To stop production could be disasterous to future mobile strategy. ROA Resolution 0809 Position Paper LPP10-15
Doc Fix: Medicare physician fees are scheduled at the end of 2010 to be reduced by nearly 24 percent. Congress needs to permanently fix this rather than kicking the issue down the road. Such cuts will reduce the number of physicians accepting Medicare patients and will have a detrimental effect on military health care as well. TRICARE physicians must accept payments based on the Medicare fee structure. If these fees are cut by 24 percent than military families of those Actively serving, National Guard and Reserve members and their families, military retirees, and retirees' families will all be affected by Medicare fee reductions. Rather than cutting costs, these scheduled reductions will be cutting access to health care. While legislation postponed the cuts until Dec 1, 2010, action must be taken by Congress to stop these accumulating reduction and fix the problem.
Press here: If you wish to write your elected official to stop fee cuts.
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