Senate Republicans, including Alaska's Dan Sullivan, stalled a vote on a bill that aims to improve health care access for veterans who have been exposed to burn pits. A spokesperson said Sullivan intends to support the final passage of the bill.
The seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington on June 21, 2013.
Deb Davis, commander of the Alaska Department of the American Legion, said she wishes the bill passed this week. Sullivan spokesperson Mike Reynard said the senator voted no so that he could pursue amendments to “push for the best bill possible on toxic exposure for veterans.” “Any system that treats veterans, that would have to take on that many more veterans, risks collapsing the system,” Sullivan said last week. “Then you have everybody suffering.”
“We’re back in a holding pattern hoping for Monday with no real assurance that it’s actually going to happen,” Davis said. “Even if Senator Sullivan changes his vote, and Senator Murkowski can vote, and they both vote yes, it won’t go with just those two people.”
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