{"id":37035,"date":"2013-08-10T07:33:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T11:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37035"},"modified":"2013-08-10T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T11:33:18","slug":"obama-signs-bill-for-vets-at-airport-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37035","title":{"rendered":"Obama signs bill for vets at airport screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/obama-signs-bill-easing-airport-screening-for-vets-1.234704\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the President signed into law yesterday the <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/D?c113:5:.\/temp\/~c113zzzUnU::\">Helping Heroes Fly Act<\/a> that is intended to ease TSA airport screening for disabled and wounded veterans;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, an Iraq war veteran who sponsored the bill] says the law ensures troops can return to life at home as quickly and seamlessly as possible. She says veterans deserve dignified screening processes that respect their service and sacrifices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the bill at the link above, but don&#8217;t expect everything to change overnight. The bill just directs DoD and the VA to &#8220;develop and implement a process to support and facilitate the ease of travel and to the extent possible provide expedited passenger screening services for severely injured or disabled members of the Armed Forces and severely injured or disabled veterans through passenger screening.&#8221; Knowing the speed at which those two agencies work, I wouldn&#8217;t expect much in the near future, although it is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the President signed into law yesterday the Helping Heroes Fly Act &hellip; <a title=\"Obama signs bill for vets at airport screening\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37035\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama signs bill for vets at airport screening<\/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":[46,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37035","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=37035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}