[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1447]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       H.R. 4440, THE COMBAT ACT

  (Mr. McNERNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McNERNEY. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the sacrifices of 
American men and women serving our country overseas and to urge my 
colleagues to support legislation I introduced to give them a much-
deserved pay increase for facing dangerous situations.
  Late last year, I traveled to Afghanistan and was privileged to meet 
members of our Armed Forces serving our country in a difficult and 
dangerous environment. Two of those soldiers approached me and said 
they had not seen a combat pay increase in several years and asked me 
to do what I could do to make the burden of overseas deployment easier 
for them and their families.
  As a result, when I got back to Washington, I introduced H.R. 4440, 
the COMBAT Act, which provides several types of combat pay increases, 
including hostile fire pay, imminent danger pay and family separation 
allowance. I ask my colleagues to join me in supporting our troops and 
their families by becoming a cosponsor of this bill.

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