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Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009--Continued

Floor Speech

Date: May 20, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Defense Military Personnel Health and Health Care Family


SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009--Continued -- (Senate - May 20, 2009)

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AMENDMENT NO. 1167

Mr. BENNET. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendments so that I may call up my amendment No. 1167.

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Mr. BENNET. Mr. President, my amendment ensures that active-duty soldiers do not lose family benefits, nutrition benefits that they have come to count on. It is wrong that a combat family would actually loose WIC benefits and child nutrition benefits just because the military loved one gets called up.

I thank my colleagues Senators JOHANNS and CASEY for their support of this amendment. I appreciate the great work of the chairman on this important piece of legislation.

I urge, at the appropriate time, adoption of the amendment.

I yield the floor and I suggest the absence of a quorum.

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