[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 150 (Monday, September 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9498]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                                HIGH ONE

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, fair and equitable treatment of our 
military personnel and our veterans deserves greater attention in this 
Congress.
  Dedicating one's self to our national security should at least result 
in some personal security at retirement time.
  Unfortunately, the Republican leadership has approved a plan to 
refigure the retirement pay that our men and women in the military had 
figured on as being theirs at retirement time. They call it High One, 
but the Texans that I have been hearing from say it is little more than 
``hi and bye.''
  We have folks who have served in the military for 10 and 20 years, 
the whole time thinking that they had a fixed income when they retired. 
Then along comes this formula refiguring and all of a sudden some folks 
who calculated a particular retirement find out they have got to do 
some recalculating. This is all the more unfortunate given the 
inattention and inaction on some other issues like COLA inequity, 
Medicare subvention, and forgotten widows.
  It is time to give our veterans and those who are in our military the 
attention they deserve. As the old saying goes, ``It's not doing our 
veterans a favor, it's repaying one.''

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