Fabulous!!! It seems all my links above to the Library of Congress are temporary. Hey, why should the Government want you to link to anything so unimportant as, oh, Congressional records and proceedings?
To read the 60 amendments to the Veterans Jobs Corps Act of 2012, do the following... Go to:
Search Bill Summary & Status - 112th Congress - THOMAS (Library of Congress)
In the "Enter Search" box, type: Veterans Jobs Corps Act of 2012
Click Search.
On the following page, click "Amendments"
You will find 60 amendments. All of them will say "See Congressional Record for text." Bummer, huh? Hey, NOTHING in the Government is easy! Keep working, Comrade...
On amendment 1, click "S.AMDT.2780"
Next page, after "TEXT OF AMENDMENT AS SUBMITTED:" click on "CR S6065" (that's the "Congressional Record" page 6,065 in case you were wondering. Those Senators talk a lot.)
Next page, after "3 . TEXT OF AMENDMENTS" click on "(Senate - September 10, 2012)"
The first thing amended to the "Veterans Job" bill by Senator Casey is a change to... wait for it... "Subpart A of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986."
Job Bill. Right. And my cat can scuba dive.
Enjoy!
Thank you for the link. First, the exclusion from the benefits only includes those who are dishonorably discharged, can only happen if convicted in military court and all convictions are considered felonies. However, it appears to allow this benefit to those given a Bad Conduct Discharge, also only used as part of a conviction, and those who are discharged with a General Discharge, Under Other Than Honorable Conditions, used when someone accepts an Article 15, Non-Judicial punishment in lieu of a courts martial. Both of which excludes individual given those discharges from Veteran Benefits and the current G.I. Bill for education.
As for Amendments, lets see,
S.3457
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a 100% continuous levy upon the property and rights of Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) providers and suppliers neglecting or refusing to pay taxes.
Repeals provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 providing for a program for the research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of technologies for ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resource exploration and production.
Permits the Secretary of State to deny, revoke, or limit a passport to any individual upon receiving certification from the Secretary of the Treasury that such individual has a delinquent tax debt in an amount in excess of $50,000.
S.AMDT.2781 TEXT OF AMENDMENT AS SUBMITTED: CR S6110-6111 DIVISION A--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS, et al,
Ok, what is defense authorizations and spending doing in a veterans job bill?
S.AMDT.2782, S.AMDT.2783,S.AMDT.2784,S.AMDT.2785,S.AMDT.2786,S.AMDT.2787,S.AMDT.2788,S.AMDT.2789 same as 2781 in intent. Just different Senators proposals. Should defense spending be included in a Veterans Job bill?
S.AMDT.2790 Includes things like requiring VA to dispose of controlled substances when surrendered to them, maybe not a bad thing, but should it be a jobs bill?
S.AMDT.2791 National right to work, hey all for it, but why is it snuck into a jobs bill?
etc, etc through all the other amendments.
So it is not just the Dems doing it. Although, the Reps may only have been reacting to proposals first entered by Dems, to me at least the whole thing is a bit confusing, so maybe not. Totally despicable by all involved. I can agree with the nature and spirit of the original bill, if it also excluded Bad Conduct Discharges and General Discharges Under Other Than Honorable Conditions. Since the original bill is not a "funding" bill, the Veterans Job Corps part could be introduced and passed by either House of Congress.