Efforts to Expand GI Bill Gain Ground in Congress

Momentum is building in Congress for a bill that would significantly expand tuition benefits for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The legislation, which would cover up to the full cost of a four-year education at a public college, may be attached to a war-spending bill that lawmakers are expected to take up soon.

Supporters of the tuition-benefits bill, S 22, say today's troops deserve the same educational opportunities that the original GI bill provided to veterans

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