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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 638
111TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 111-346
POST-9/11 VETERANS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
IMPROVEMENTS ACT OF 2010
OCTOBER 26 (legislative day, OCTOBER 1), 2010.-Ordered to be printed
Filed, under authority of the order of the Senate of September 29, 2010
Mr. AKAKA, from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 3447]
The Committee on Veterans' Affairs (hereinafter, the Com-
mittee), to which was referred the bill (S. 3447), to amend title 38,
United States Code (hereinafter, U.S.C.), to improve educational
assistance for veterans who served in the Armed Forces after Sep-
tember 11, 2001, and for other purposes, reports favorably thereon
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, and recommends
that the bill, as amended, do pass.
INTRODUCTION
On May 27, 2010, Chairman Daniel K. Akaka introduced
S. 3447, the proposed Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance
Improvements Act of 2010, to amend title 38 to improve edu-
cational assistance for veterans who served in the Armed Forces
after September 11, 2001, and for other purposes. Later, Ranking
Member Richard Burr and Senators Baucus, Begich, Bennet,
Boxer, Burris, Dodd, Gillibrand, Inouye, Johnson, Kaufman,
Landrieu, Lautenberg, Lincoln, McCaskill, Merkley, Murkowski,
Murray, Rockefeller, Sanders, Schumer, Snowe, Stabenow, Tester,
Udall (NM), and Webb were added as cosponsors.
On July 21, 2010, the Committee held a hearing on pending
legislation, including S. 3447. Testimony was offered by: Keith Wil-
son, Director, Education Service, Department of Veterans Affairs;
Robert E. Clark, Assistant Director for Accession Policy, Depart-
ment of Defense; Eric A. Hilleman, National Legislative Director,
Veterans of Foreign Wars; Tim Embree, Legislative Associate, Iraq
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