Warner signs on to GI Bill improvement plan

[unhappycamper]

Warner signs on to GI Bill improvement plan
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Feb 28, 2008 18:42:21 EST

Senate sponsors of legislation to update GI Bill education benefits introduced a revised bill Thursday, but the biggest change in the landscape of that issue is the addition of a new key cosponsor.

Sen. John Warner of Virginia, former chairman and now ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has joined Sens. Jim Webb, D-Va., Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., as the primary sponsors of a bill that has broad support among military and veterans’ groups but is opposed by the Bush administration.

Webb said he hoped the addition of Warner to the cosponsor list would help pave the way for quick passage of a bill that has already been too long in the making. Webb said Warner “brings a great deal of credibility to the table.”

Warner said he views the bill as helping veterans and helping the military, calling it “another building block to ensure we can preserve the all-volunteer force and never return to the draft.”

Bush administration officials have argued that a better GI Bill, besides being costly, could hurt the military by encouraging people to leave service to attend college.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/02/military_gibill_warner_webb_031008w/



uhc comment: This is the dumbest thing I've heard from these sorry motherfuckers.

[TwilightGardener]

1. The improved GI Bill would HURT the military?? Did the FIRST GI Bill

hurt the military? Did the Montgomery GI bill hurt the military? Of course not--it's a recruitment incentive! Jesus Christ, BushCo really, really has contempt for our servicemen--it's sickening.