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En Bloc Package: Amendment 60--Military Family Home Protection H.R. 1960, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014

Floor Speech

Date: June 20, 2013
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Military Personnel Government Budget and Spending

Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the bill's managers for including in this en bloc amendment a provision I submitted to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.

Under current law, certain disabled veterans, servicemembers and their families are not receiving the critical protection they need. As a result, banks are foreclosing on their homes at the very moment when our heroes most deserve our support.

Our amendment extends foreclosure protections to all servicemembers receiving hostile fire or imminent danger pay, to the surviving spouses of servicemembers killed in the line of duty, and to veterans who become disabled due to service-connected injuries.

Last Congress, I introduced a similar amendment that passed the house with overwhelming bipartisan support.
I ask Members to vote in favor of this amendment.


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