May 16, 2008
U.S. House Approves New GI Benefits, but Measure's Fate in Senate Is Uncertain
Washington
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to significantly expand tuition benefits for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But in a surprising twist, lawmakers refused to provide more money for the wars themselves, leaving that step up to the Senate.
The tuition-benefits measure, which would cover up to the full cost of a four-year education at a public college, was supposed to be part of an emergency war-spending package that was to contain billions of
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