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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