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WASHINGTON — Sen. Michael Bennet got his first measure past the U.S. Senate when the chamber voted to exempt the military’s combat pay from calculations for federal low-income food programs, The Gazette reports.
The rookie Democrat got his measure included in a wider agriculture- spending bill. The food programs, which give kids price cuts on school lunches and provide groceries to families living in poverty, have income requirements that had counted the $110 per month that soldiers get for deploying to war.
