Tester Bipartisan Resolution Commemorating 80th Anniversary of GI Bill Passes Senate

(U.S. Senate) - The U.S. Senate unanimously passed Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester's bipartisan resolution yesterday commemorating the 80^th anniversary of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, also known as the GI Bill. Since being signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, the GI Bill has provided critical education and housing benefits to millions of veterans and helped ease their transition from military to civilian life.

"Montana veterans answered the call of duty knowing that their country would take care of them after their time in uniform," said Tester. "Ensuring veterans' access to higher education is a critically important way we honor this promise. And because of the GI Bill, generations of Montana veterans have been able to obtain an education and advance their civilian careers. As Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, I'll always fight to protect our student veterans and their hard-earned benefits at universities in Montana and across the country."

Tester is staunch advocate of modernizing and strengthening education benefits for veterans and their families. The Senator backed the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act, which extended the GI Bill educational benefits to veterans who served after 9/11, encouraging voluntary service in the armed forces and providing benefits to all who served. He further supported legislation to amend and improve the Post-9/11 GI Bill, including the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act, and the Veterans Auto and Education Improvement Act.

Continuing his push to bolster veterans' education benefits, Tester introduced the bipartisan Guard and Reserve GI Bill Parity Act this Congress to ensure National Guardsmen and Reservists receive educational benefits for all the time they spent in uniform. He is also spearheading efforts to increase veterans' access to critical education programs like Vet Success on Campus with his Ensuring VetSuccess on Campus Act and Skillbridge, to ensure servicemembers have the tools they need when transitioning from the military to civilian life and careers.

Read the Senator's full resolution HERE. <_o3a_p>