House Proceeding 06-24-09 on Jun 24th, 2009 :: 0:06:25 to 0:10:15
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Joe Wilson: i urge my colleagues to support the disabled military retiree relief act of 2009. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri reserves his time. the gentleman from south carolina is recognized. mr. wilson: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized.

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Speech By: Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: mr. wilson: madam speaker, i rise to support h.r. 2990, the disabled military retiree relief act of 2009. this bill has a number of good provisions dealing with military and civilian personnel, which i appreciate as a 31-year army national guard veteran representing paris island, the marine corps air station at beaufort, the

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Joe Wilson: beaufort naval office in jackson. i want to talk about the department of defense disability veteran and veterans' administration disability pay to a small number of people discharged from the services with less than 20 years service because of injuries sustained while in the service. this section, which is but a ghost of the proposal submitted

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Joe Wilson: by president obama, is a small b the population eligible for full concurrent receipt. i am glad some progress is being made. what troubles and disappoints me most, however, is that this bill, which will be attached to the national defense authorization act for 2010, could have done so much more

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Joe Wilson: had the democratic leadership of the house made elimination of concurrent receipt and eliminion of the widow's tax, a priority from the beginning of congress. instead, we are unable to even debate my amendment at the full committee markup of the defense authorization dealing with concurrent receipt, the elimination of the survivor

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Joe Wilson: benefit plan, and disability indemnity compensation offset is a widow's tax. the extension of health care to early retiring reserve component members and the use of the the budget resolution. i would note that since the introduction of the amendment, the democratic leadership has

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Joe Wilson: using resources and dollars outside the house around services committee jurisdiction to provide for just nine months, a very limited concurrent receipt for disabled military retirees. while that is a step forward to eliminating some of the injustice inflicted on disabled retirees, it does nothing to cure the injustice still being

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Joe Wilson: suffered by most persons losing their rightly earned benefits because of the remaining concurrent receipt prohibitions. had the house leadership seen eliminating these injustices as a priority, they could have allocated the small percentage, less than 1% necessary in the $15 trillion they provided for

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Joe Wilson: government spending in 2010 to 2014. or they could have used the reserve fund authority as proposed in my amendment. instead, we must settle for a small pittance for the small group of retirees. i hope that since the authority for this limited concurrent receipt is for only nine months that the democratic leadership makes resolving l of the

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Joe Wilson: concurrent receipt in s.b.p. is a real, not a symbolic priority next year. as a nation we owe more than our gratitude to the brave men and women in uniform and their families past and present for sacrifices they make to protect our freedoms. i know firsthand of the courage of our troops.

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Joe Wilson: my late father-in-law, julian, a dedicated marine, was awarded the navy cross for leading the capture of the japanese headquarters of shiri castle on okinawa. he was shot by a sniper as a result of his being in a