Top GOP senator favors vets’ bill

October 14, 2007  --  Got something to say?
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World War II VetsWASHINGTON D.C. The new Republican member of the Senate Veterans Affairs committee has expressed optimism that the overdue benefits for Filipino American veterans of World War II will finally be resolved.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) replaced Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho)as the ranking Republican member of the veterans committee who had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after the toilet incident at the Minneapolis airport recently.
Craig was against granting a bigger pension to the remaining survivors of the war.
The Philippine embassy press release said that Ambassador Willy C. Gaa made a courtesy call on the newly-installed ranking minority member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Sen. Burr at his office at the Hart Buildilng on Capitol Hill September 19.
The release said Burr welcomed Ambassador Gaa…and stressed the necessity of building a bipartisan support for the Filipino Veterans Equity bill as part of a comprehensive veterans package and expressed optimism in finally resolving the long-overdue grant of benefits to the Filipino WWII Veterans.


Mr. Gaa was accompanied on his courtesy call by former New York Republican Rep. Benjamin Gilman, who now heads the Gilman Group, a lobbying firm in Washington D.C. Gilman is a 32-year Republican Congressional Leader.
In his meeting with Sen. Burr, the ambassador was joined by lawyer David Miller, a senior partner of the Gilman Group, a retired US Army veteran and former US Senate staff assistant, and Major General Delfin Lorenzana (Ret.), Special Presidential Representative on Veterans Affairs at the Philippine embassy.
Gilman has been hired by the Philippines government to lobby for the veterans bill. The embassy release said Gilman bats for the passage of the Filipino Veterans Equity bills pending in the US Congress.” In 1995, Gilman as a ranking member of the veterans committee, filed the Filipino Veterans Equity Bill and championed the cause for Filipino World War II Veterans before the US Congress.
Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, later joined the discussion on the Senate floor deliberation on the bill.

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