The bill would amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011, to offset mandatory sequestration in security and non-security categories in FY2013-FY2021 with revenues resulting from the reduction in the federal workforce and the pay freeze under this Act.

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The bill would amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify presumptions relating to the exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the Republic of Vietnam.

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Early this week Senator McCain, Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, “dropped” an amendment to the NDAA prior to its passage. This amendment would have allowed enrolment fees for TRI CARE Prime for retirees in 2013 and beyond to be indexed as the DoD had originally intended.

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Yesterday at the December meeting of The Military Coalition the eight legislative committees of the Coalition presented their legislative goals for next year.

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Last evening the Senate finally passed the NDAA. This is the bill that funds the Defense Department for the fiscal year that we are already in, operating under a Continuing Resolution.

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