{"id":34681,"date":"2013-03-21T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T22:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34681"},"modified":"2013-03-21T18:10:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T22:10:24","slug":"congress-to-reinstate-tuition-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34681","title":{"rendered":"Congress to reinstate Tuition Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Senate voted to reinstate Tuition Assistance to the services yesterday, the House voted today to send the bill to the President. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/congress-passes-bill-to-force-reinstatement-of-tuition-assistance-1.212706?goback=.gmp_2858287.gde_2858287_member_225088073\">Stars &#038; Stripes link<\/a> from Pat;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> On Wednesday, the Senate included the tuition assistance rules as part of their plan to fund federal programs through September. On Thursday, the House agreed with the proposal, and the president is expected to sign it into law in coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Congress had until March 27 to pass a new budget bill or risk a government shutdown. But the tuition assistance provision was a surprise for supporters of the education benefit, since partisan infighting seemed to shelve the idea earlier in the week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Marines, Army, Air Force and the Coast Guard all sacrificed the program for active duty troops to sequestration last week, but it looks like help is on the way. Now if they&#8217;d only pass a real complete budget for a change instead of kicking the can down the road for political points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Senate voted to reinstate Tuition Assistance to the services yesterday, the House voted today &hellip; <a title=\"Congress to reinstate Tuition Assistance\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34681\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congress to reinstate Tuition Assistance<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}