Amid protests, Senate poised to pass health care for vets exposed to toxic burn pits.
August 02, 2022, 5:05 PMJon Stewart hugs Tim Hauser, an Air Force veteran, at a rally to call on the Senate to pass the Pact Act, which aims to expand health care and benefits to veterans exposed to toxins while serving, outside the Capitol in Washington, Aug., 2, 2022.After a series of delays and emotional protests, the Senate is expected to vote Tuesday night on a bill that would help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.
"America's heroes who fought in our wars outside sweating their asses off with oxygen, battling all kinds of ailments" while Republican senators were sitting "in the air conditioning walled off from any of it," Stewart said during a press conference in front of the Capitol Building on Thursday. "They don't have to hear it, they don't have to see it. They don't have to understand that these are human beings.
"What matters to a veteran whose ill because of a toxic exposure is that the money is there to cover what he needs, that's what he should be concerned about and that will be there," Toomey said Tuesday. "What I am trying to limit is the extent that they could use a budget gimmick to reclassify a reclassify spending and go on an unrelated spending binge."
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