Jon Stewart and Marine Corps veteran Mindy Beyer detail the fight to help veterans exposed to burn pits after Republicans blocked legislation in the Senate.
TV host Jon Stewart and Marine Corps veteran Mindy Beyer discuss the fight to help veterans exposed to burn pits after legislation stalled in Congress on 'America Reports.'Comedian Jon Stewart fired back at Republican lawmakers on Tuesday for blocking the passage of a bill that would have extended health benefits to veterans exposed toSpeaking with"America Reports" hosts Sandra Smith and John Roberts, the former"Daily Show" host criticized Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
, insisting that"not one word" was added to the copy of the bill that was passed in an 84-14 Senate vote in June. One sentence was, however, omitted when the bill went to the House, Stewart said, but it was a provision about rural VA providers and unrelated to Republicans' mandatory spending concerns.
BIDEN CONNECTS THROUGH FACETIME WITH VETERANS EXPOSED TO BURN PITS: THERE IS 'SACRED OBLIGATION' TO HELP THEM Marine Corps veteran Mindy Beyer joined Stewart in the interview, in which she discussed her friend and fellow corpsman Kate Thomas, who died earlier this year of an aggressive cancer that has been linked to burn pits.
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