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Heather Delaney Reese: This afternoon, the House passed H.R. 9237, the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act, by voice vote. There was no recorded roll call, so there is no public record showing how any individual member of Congress voted on this bill. The legislation would reduce future disability compensation for veterans with tinnitus and sleep apnea, two of the most common service-connected conditions, and would increase certain VA refinancing fees. It would expand benefits for approximately 54,000 combat-injured military retirees, which has broad bipartisan support, but it pays for those expanded benefits by cutting them for other veterans.