12 GOP senators oppose bill to expand health care to veterans exposed to toxic burn pits

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Congress can do what is right--sometimes.





12 GOP https://americanindependent.com/veterans-health-care-toxic-burn-pits-senate-republicans/ Sens. Richard Burr (NC), Bill Cassidy (LA), John Kennedy (LA), James Lankford (OK), Mike Lee (UT), Cynthia Lummis (WY), Rand Paul (KY), Mitt Romney (UT), Dan Sullivan (AK), Thom Tillis (NC), Pat Toomey (PA), and Todd Young (IN).

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12 GOP senators oppose bill to expand health care to veterans exposed to toxic burn pits

https://americanindependent.com/veterans-health-care-toxic-burn-pits-senate-republicans/



By
Josh Israel -
June 7, 2022 4:56 PM


The Senate bill passed on Tuesday would expand health care coverage for more than 3.5 million veterans.

The Democratic-controlled Senate on Tuesday advanced a bill aimed at providing adequate medical care for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during their service. But 12 Senate Republicans voted against even considering this bipartisan proposal.

By an 86-12 margin, the Senate voted for cloture on a motion to begin consideration of the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act of 2022 — well more than the required 60-vote supermajority.



.....................In his March State of the Union address, Biden noted that his own son's fatal cancer might have been caused by toxic exposure during his service in Iraq.

"When they came home, many of the world's fittest and best-trained warriors were never the same. Headaches. Numbness. Dizziness. A cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin," he said of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. "I know. One of those soldiers was my son, Major Beau Biden. We don't know for sure if a burn pit was the cause of his brain cancer or the diseases of so many of our troops. But I’m committed to finding out everything we can.".......................................

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1. Who is surprised by this?

GOP senators are assholes

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2. Romney a head scratcher...

The other guys block everything that comes up.

Not sure how Romney justified voting against benefits for gulf war vets.

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3. K & R...nt

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4. Repukes would take away every VA benefit

If they were in power