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Benefits despite the shutdown. coming up several democrats are expected to hold a news conference on the senate steps about it. joining me now, jim miklaszewski. mik, explain to all of us, the presence of the defense secretary, chuck hagel, at the sight of the dignified transfer at dover, what does this achieve? reporter: this is a gesture to show that the pentagon, the dod and second hagel support the troops. the problem, according to officials here, that the pay the military now act, which allowed service members to be paid during the shutdown, specifically mentioned that they could receive their pay and allowances, such as housing allowance, but it didn t talk about this death benefit or payments to the families of those service members who had died. and even though the lawyers, they put their heads together with the justice department trying to figure out how to make that work, they just couldn t make it work and they had to reject it. hence, congress today is going ....

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