Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Urgent Need To Pass Bipartisan Legislation To Ensure Veterans Receive The Benefits They Have Earned

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor about the need to quickly pass mandatory funding to ensure that veterans have the benefits they need in October. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Last night, the House passed legislation through a voice vote that would ensure that veterans get their well-deserved benefits for October. Passed by voice vote in the house, that doesn't happen too often on significant and important legislation.

Well, we want to pass it through the Senate quickly.

The need for action is urgent: without this additional mandatory funding for veterans benefits before September 20th, the VA will be unable to issue Compensation and Pension benefits payments to as many as seven million veterans and their survivors.

We can’t let that happen, so we must act, and we will.

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