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The Gist
Sen. Jerry Moran is the lead Senate sponsor of H.R. 9237’s companion bill, S. 4744, which funds the Major Richard Star Act by cutting future sleep apnea and tinnitus ratings.
In 2013, Congress cut military retiree COLA by 1% as a budget offset. Moran’s own office says he opposed it.
In 2014, Moran sponsored a bill to reverse that cut, saying Congress shouldn’t “balance our budget on the backs of our veterans.”
Rep. Jennifer Kiggans personally led 55 House Republicans in a 2023 letter calling the mere suggestion of a VA funding tradeoff “dishonest and shameless.” She’s now a cosponsor of H.R. 9237, which contains an actual one, written into the bill’s text.
Neither is a new opinion of mine. Both are their own words, on the record, twelve and three years apart.
