Coburn Stymies Reid Amendment

摘要

Getting some kind of concurrent receipt initiative in the Senate's Defense Authorization Bill seemed a no-brainer. After all, our longtime Senate concurrent receipt champion, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), is majority leader of the Senate.rnEach Senate-passed bill for the past several years has included at least some Reid-proposed initiative to reduce the remaining number of disabled retirees affected by the disability offset to retired pay. And most of those initiatives resulted in at least some progress toward the goal of totally eliminating the offset.