House passes slew of bills for vets, troops

House passes slew of bills for vets, troops
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday May 20, 2008 19:46:21 EDT

The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan collection of seven bills and four resolutions in a pre-Memorial Day rush of legislation aimed at showing service members, veterans and their families that Congress cares.

Three more bills are scheduled for a vote Wednesday.

Included in the pile are important bills such as HR 5826, which would provide the annual cost-of-living adjustment in veterans disability and survivor benefits, and HR 5856, which would approve construction and renovation at veterans medical facilities.

Those bills, along with a measure about reimbursing hospitals that treat veterans requiring emergency care, will be voted on Wednesday.

In the collection of bills that passed, only one is controversial. That measure, HR 6048, would give service members deployed on contingency operations protection from changes in child custody arrangements.


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