Gohmert, Hutchison Work to Ensure Military Pay

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX-01) held a press conference Wednesday urging Congress to adopt legislation that would ensure that military servicemen and women receive their pay in full, regardless of whether a budget deal can be reached. The two say there is no precedent as to what would be paid out of the federal government’s ongoing cash flow in the event the debt ceiling is not raised and the federal government’s borrowing is exhausted.

Hutchison says Gohmert has led the effort in the House while she did likewise in the Senate in April, when lawmakers were looking at a continuing resolution and a possible government shutdown, to ensure that military families did not have to worry about a paycheck that would come late. Hutchison says the bill has 80 co-sponsors in the Senate. Gohmert remarked, “We need to make sure the military — people in harm’s way that are dodging bullets — never have to have it cross their minds that their paycheck may not come in.”