Speaker Pelosi Listens

摘要

In June, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi CD-Calif.) and top House committee chairs met with military and veterans' association leaders in the Capitol to discuss a range of active duty, retiree, survivor, veteran, and military family issues.rnPelosi touted House approval of a 3.4-percent military pay raise for next year; a special stop-loss payment of $500 a month retroactive to Sept. 11,2001, for troops held past their commitments; advance funding for VA health care; and passage of the Post-9/11 GI Bill in 2008.