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Esquire Magazine interviewed Senator Webb for their 75th Anniversary edition:
Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, has done more to repair his party's
relationship with the military than anyone since the Democrats ran
afoul of the rank and file during the Vietnam era by appearing not so
much antiwar as antimilitary. Webb's new GI Bill, passed this year,
will treat returning Iraq veterans much the same way World War II
veterans were treated when the GI Bill was first conceived.
A highly
decorated marine in Vietnam, a secretary of the Navy under Reagan, and
an early favorite to be Barack Obama's running mate, Webb withdrew from
consideration, saying that he was content in the Senate, prompting
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to tell us: "Jim Webb is that rarity
in Washington. He knows himself." Which is why he will have the ear of
whoever wins the presidency.
For all his varied and influential career
in public service, Senator Webb, the author of nine books, thinks of
himself first and foremost as a writer, and says the rigor and
watchfulness required of writing influences all of his work in
Washington.
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David Lerman writes about Senator Webb's new proposed legislation in his dailypress.com article:
Virginia Sen. Jim Webb introduced legislation Monday to give federal employees four weeks of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child.
Under the Family and Medical Leave Act passed during the Clinton administration, federal workers can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave, but many cannot afford to forgo their pay to take time off.
"The legislation we introduced today is an issue of fairness for the working family," said Webb, a freshman Democrat.
"Paid parental leave will improve recruitment and retention for federal agencies."
Most Fortune 100 companies provide an average of six to eight weeks of paid parental leave, he said.
Virginia is home to more than 100,000 federal workers. Nationwide, there are an estimated 2.7 million federal employees.
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The United States Senate has approved Jim Webb's new GI Bill:
The U.S. Senate today approved Sen. Jim Webb's GI Bill, giving troops returing from war a free college education.
The 75-22 vote was a symbolic victory for the freshman Democratic senator from Virginia, who had made the GI Bill a centpiece of his 2006 election campaign. But the victory might be short-lived, because the measure is attached to an Iraq War spending bill that President Bush has threatened to veto in its current form.
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