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Senate Reintroduces Concurrent Receipt Legislation, With Strong Support By: Mark Belinsky February 24, 2021 Maj. Richard Star, USAR, poses during a deployment to Iraq. Star died Feb. 13 after battling lung cancer; a bill to provide concurrent receipt for some veterans bears his name. (Courtesy photo) Nine days after Major Richard Star, USAR, lost his battle with cancer from toxic exposure, Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) reintroduced the Major Richard Star Act (S. 344) with 42 Senators as original cosponsors.   �...

Legitimate points impeachment. democrats still don't get why donald trump was elected and why he remains popular. katie: see back and forth and having more time to answer questions and go after each other there was a real debate that happened last night. pete: three hours long, katie you watched the whole thing. pete: yeah. combat pay. katie: i will take it. steve: only because she was up late and had to get up early. pete: and had to endure it. steve: and there is elizabeth warren waving at us. griff jenkins up in l.a. he was up late and he is up early. griff, this morning, once again, we are...

More than $60,000, in fact. sam herr's combat pay. >> when he was deployed, basically all the money that he was earning in the military just went into a savings account. he didn't spend it when he was deployed. >> reporter: and dan wozniak wanted that money? >> yes. >> reporter: and julie kibuishi? dan said he killed her to cover his tracks and to frame sam. >> to make it look like he was on the run and he did it. >> he was the one that did it. >> right, and that if he was disappeared completely, you'd never find him. and it would all go away. >> reporter: but none of this was going away. espe...

>> i said, "lean over. look at it right there." when she was leaned over, i put two bullets in the back of her head. >> reporter: dan admitted scrawling those nasty words on julie's back and to splitting her pants with a pair of scissors. the next day, he said he disposed of sam's body and then gave another pitch-perfect performance captured on videotape. detectives asked why. >> and your motive behind killing sam was? >> money and insanity. >> money and insanity. >> reporter: sam had more than $60,000 in the bank, his saved-up combat pay. and julie kibuishi? dan said he killed her to cover hi...

>> shepard: we'll check your steps on the phone. if you go over 10,000, you get combat pay. good to know, shep. you're welcome, peter. i don't know. we'll be back.