WASHINGTON, DC — Congresswoman Elaine Luria today praised House passage of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021, keeping her promise to fight for servicemembers and military families in Hampton Roads and beyond.
The 20-year Navy veteran urges the President support this legislation to address defense spending and other fiscal issues to avoid continuing resolutions and other stopgaps that could impede future projects and negatively impact military readiness.
“This National Defense Authorization Act ensures the safety of all Americans, gives our troops the resources they need to succeed, helps military families receive well deserved benefits and support, and best positions Coastal Virginia to continue our critical role in securing America,” Congresswoman Luria said. “I am proud that my colleagues were able to reach across the aisle to get this critical bill passed in a timely manner.”
The bill that passed includes many of Congresswoman Luria’s amendments. These notable additions to the bill would:
- Direct Secretary of the Navy to Report on Delays Related to Technology Insertion on New Ship Designs
- Require Service Secretaries to Study and Report on Uncharacterized Discharges
- Instruct Secretary of the Navy to Report on the Interoperability Challenges Among Combatant Ships
- Support the Multinational Force and Observers Mission in the Sinai Peninsula
- Restore Service Time to Some Participants in the Navy’s Seaman to Admiral Program
- Require the Secretary of Defense to Establish a Small Space Launch Policy
- Improve Navy’s Planning and Execution of Ship Maintenance
- Aligns medical benefits offered under TRICARE’s Extended Care Health Option (ECHO) program for special needs dependents
- Calls attention to musculoskeletal injuries and encourages continued research and innovation that is occurring within the Navy’s Wound Care Research program.
- Expresses the sense of Congress that the U.S. affirms our commitments to our Pacific allies of Japan and the Republic of Korea.
Additional news on Congresswoman Luria’s amendments to the NDAA will be released in the coming days.
Congresswoman Luria is so full of the party line that it simply oozes from every newsletter she releases. Yeah it’s good that she supports the military in this manner, but her creative use of the words trying to make it look like it’s all her new ideas is simply a sad attempt at gaining 15 minutes of fame in the 757 area code. This has all been long proposed and it never gets anywhere. Not in a democrat controlled congress. Pelosi allows her to say it, but it’s not sincere.
I don’t listen to a word Ms. Luria says anymore. I have been to her “open meetings” where everything is scripted from a stepford wives movie. You will comply and you will tow the line or you will not be heard. You will submit a written comment or question on paper that will be addressed if it fits the scripted scenario for Ms. Luria’s brain waves that day. If not, cry in your pepsi.
She accepts zero input except that which she knows is coming and it already agrees with the Nancy Pelosi party line. Then she nods her head and agrees with the question or comment you made and then moves on to the next allowable question or comment to her, not your, moment in time. Very, very sad.
If you are signed up for her newsletter, you probably got the one I got Saturday that invites me to attend the 2020 BMHC stakeholder summit. The Black Maternal Health Caucus. How nice. Let’s just get congress to set up caucuses based on racism.
Our phony racist congresswoman touts this as something we should support and want to be a part of when the exclusionary title tells us all exactly that it should be illegal and avoided at all costs.
Please don’t waste your time by thinking I have any problem with maternal health issues, or black maternal health issues. My issue is with the statement “black maternal health issues”. We are all of equal value, one and the same. I constantly am seeing members of the democrat party claim we are all equal and all should be assisted the same way and that none should be excluded in any verbal or physical way from all of the support that we all deserve or we are done emotional harm because it promotes and demonstrates blatant systemic racism. Then they spend our tax dollars and want our support for the BMHC, among other racist ideals of theirs.
What a crock.
Two faced carpetbagging race baiting blowhards is what they are, and she is, and they are a disgrace to this country for coming across that way. She is playing the race card AGAIN and her party does it all the time. I’m sick of it.
Pull your slip down man! Your misogyny and racism are showing in public. Oh right, you’re safely hiding behind 3 initials.
You do realize you haven’t posted your full name, right?
Who died and left you in charge? As the words you use have been misused, over-used, and have no consequences, why on earth would you use them? No one really cared who you think is racist. Do you understand me. Run along and play, adults are talking.
‘Congresswoman Luria Continues to Advocate for Coastal Virginians As She Votes to Pass NDAA’
Coastal Virginians wish she would stop.