Republican Senate Kills Military Veteran Job bill

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“No veteran who fought for our nation should have to fight for a job at home, but Republicans in Washington are blocking a common sense plan to create the Veterans Jobs Corps and put tens of thousands of veterans back to work,” the White House said in a statement.
“It’s both shocking and shameful that Republicans today chose to kill a bill to put America’s veterans back to work,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and a bill co-sponsor. “At a time when one in four young veterans are unemployed, Republicans should have been able, for just this once, to put aside the politics of obstruction and to help these men and women provide for their families.”


Murray said budgetary set-asides would pay for the bill.
Five Republicans, including Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Dean Heller of Nevada, and Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, joined every Democrat in supporting the motion to waive the budgetary objections, but the tally was two votes short.

This bill would have assisted veterans and assisted us to maintain the National Parks lands in better condition. It would have provided for firemen and women, police and other needs by personnel who have already been trained to do these jobs in the military. It is sad that our veterans are considered just political fodder by the GOP in this election year.

This bill probably would have assisted those vets who are now part of the 47%. They might still need assistance but they would be doing meaningful work and getting paid. This is important for young people not to sit, unable to get jobs or be forced into job training for non-existent jobs, or jobs not suited to the vets skill set. Sometimes the ability to put politics ahead of our military and military vets scares me.