All-Volunteer Force Educational Assistance Act

Armed Forces and National Security Senate 6 cosponsors

Latest action: Committee on Veterans received executive comment from OMB. · August 12, 1981

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Committee on Veterans received executive comment from OMB.

Recorded August 12, 1981, as the clerk wrote it

Sponsor Sen. Cranston, Alan [D-CA]

Committee Veterans' Affairs Committee

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