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Where Do Your Legislators Stand?
The summary below shows the positions of your senators and representative on a number of key issues important
to MOAA members. This summary reflects legislators’ status as cosponsors of MOAA-supported bills rather than
actual votes on the issues, except as noted in the explanations below.
Senate Cosponsorship
State Senator/party affiliation SBP CONCURRENT GUARD/RESERVE TRICARE MILITARY SPOUSE
RECEIPT RETIREMENT FEES PAY RAISE DOMICILE
House Cosponsorship
State/ Representative/party SBP CONCURRENT GUARD/RESERVE TRICARE MILITARY SPOUSE
District affiliation
RECEIPT RETIREMENT FEES PAY RAISE DOMICILE
+
means the legislator has cosponsored one of the associated bills listed below or has voted for a similar provision in committee or floor action.
-
means the legislator has not cosponsored any of the relevant bills or did not vote for a bill that contained the initiative.
Note 1: Your legislator identification is based on your mailing address in your MOAA membership record unless you have given MOAA a separate voting address.
Note 2: Some congressional and committee leaders do not cosponsor bills on issues within their purview.
Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) legislation would end the TRICARE fee legislation would restrict DoD’s authority to
deduction of VA survivor benefits from SBP annuities or impose TRICARE fee hikes or establish principles aimed at
increase the amounts payable to survivors subject to deduc- deterring disproportional fee hikes. A “+” indicates a Senate
tion. A “+” indicates Senate cosponsorship of S. 535 vote for S. 1390 or House cosponsorship of H.R. 816 (Ed-
(Nelson, D-Fla.) or a vote for S. 1390 or House cosponsor- wards, D-Texas).
ship of H.R. 775 (Ortiz, D-Texas), H.R. 2243 (Buyer, R-Ind.),
or H.R. 1804 (Towns, D-N.Y.) or a vote for H.R. 1256. Military pay raise legislation would increase the 2010 mili-
tary pay raise to 3.4 percent (one-half percentage point higher
Concurrent receipt legislation would eliminate the off- than proposed in the president’s budget). A “+” indicates a
set between military retired pay and veterans’ disability Senate vote for S. 1390 or House cosponsorship of H.R. 1592
compensation. A “+” indicates Senate cosponsorship of (Bilirakis, R-Fla.) or H.R. 1864 (Wilson, R-S.C.) or a House
S. 546 (Reid, D-Nev.) or House cosponsorship of H.R. vote for H.R. 2647.
303 or H.R. 811 (Bilirakis, R-Fla.) or H.R. 333 (Marshall,
D-Ga.) or a vote for H.R. 2647. Spouse domicile legislation would allow the spouse of an
active duty servicemember to elect the same state of domicile
Guard/Reserve retirement legislation would reduce the as the servicemember for voting, tax, and other purposes. A
age at which some or all guardmembers and reservists are “+” indicates Senate cosponsorship of S. 475 (Burr, R-N.C.)
eligible for retired pay. A “+” indicates Senate cosponsorship or a vote for S. 1390 or House cosponsorship of H.R. 1182
of S. 644 (Chambliss, R-Ga.) or S. 831 (Kerry D-Mass.) or a (Carter, R-Texas).
vote for S. 1390 or House cosponsorship of H.R. 1695 (LoBi-
ondo, R-N.J.) or H.R. 208 (Wilson, R-S.C.).
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