Questions of Cost-Cutting in Army’s Disabilities Ratings “The Army is shortchanging troops on their disability retirement ratings to hold down costs, according to veterans advocates, lawyers and service members…The number of soldiers approved for permanent disability retirement has plunged by more than two-thirds, from 642 in 2001 to 209 in 2005, according to a Government Accountability Office report last year. That decline has come even as the number of soldiers wounded or injured in Iraq has soared above 15,000.” (Army Times)Democrats Planning Fundraising Blitz “Eager to shore up their fragile House and Senate majorities, congressional Democrats have enlisted their committee chairmen in an early blitz to bring millions of dollars into the party’s coffers, culminating in a late-March event featuring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and 10 of the powerful panel chairs.” (The Washington Post)
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