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John McCain is taking credit for the Webb GI Education Bill...
I'm happy to tell you that we probably agreed to an increase in educational benefits for our veterans that not only gives them increase in their educational benefits, but if they stay in for a certain period of time than they can transfer those educational benefits to their spouses and or children. That's a very important aspect I think of incentivizing people of staying in the military.
This is quite odd considering that McCain opposed the passage of this bill in the Senate...
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, seemed to give a thumbs down to bipartisan legislation that would greatly expand educational benefits for members of the military returning from Iraq and Afghanistan under the GI Bill.Vote Vets put out this ad asking McCain to support the bill and support the troops.
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Not only did John McCain miss the vote on Webb's new GI bill (one of only two U.S. Senators not present for the vote on June 26, 2008), but he also actively opposed the bill as overly generous. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton voted for H.R. 2642 and were co-sponsors of the bill in the U.S. Senate.
President George Bush and Senator John McCain were not supportive of the new GI bill: bipartisan legislation that would greatly expand educational benefits for members of the military returning home from the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Other co-sponsors of the bill included Republican Senators John Warner of Virginia and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, both veterans and past beneficiaries of the GI bill.
We owe our veterans something for their honorable service in the time of war. The people who bore the most anguish and suffering are the people who could use these benefits.
All of this is true (including first comment), but Bush/McCain did insist that the bill include the transferability clause, which Bush did manage to get the House to compromise on in their version.
But for McCain to take any credit for this is absurd, since it did pass through the House and Bush compromise. So if McCain wants to take credit for any of this, he needs to do so through Bush, something he's been steering clear from these days.
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