August 3, 2000
Letter to Rep David Drier (R-CA) and all members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, the House Armed Services Committee and the House Rules Committee plus House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), and Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) and Majority Whip Tom Delay (R-TX) asking them to act promptly to clear for floor action S. 1419, designating May as National Military Appreciation Month. (Personnel, Compensation and Commissaries and Veterans Committee)

July 20, 2000
Letter to Senator Tim Hutchinson (R-ARK) and all members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees highlighting the differences in the House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act and the Coalition's recommendations for resolving those differences in the best interests of the uniformed services personnel and military readiness. (All TMC Committees)

July 11, 2000
Letters to Rep Tom Allen (D-ME) and 287 other members of the House of Representatives who were cosponsors of HR 303, urging them to co-sign Rep Michael Bilirakis' (R-FL) letter to the House conferees urging them to agree to the full concurrent proposal in the Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Bill. (Retirement Committee)

June 22, 2000
Letters to Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) and Rep David Hobson (R-OH) requesting their assistance in providing Emergency FY2000 Supplemental funding for critical U.S. Coast Guard programs. (Personnel, Compensation and Commissaries Committee)

June 2, 2000
Letter to Jacob Lew, Director of the Office of Management and Budget requesting that he authorize the Secretary of Defense to remove the $200 annual enrollment fee from the DoD Pharmacy Benefit Pilot Program which was slated to begin July 1, 2000. (Health Care Committee)

May 17, 2000
Letter to Rep Gene Taylor (D-MS) expressing strong support for his proposed amendment to HR4205, the FY2001 National Defense Authorization Act, to expand TRICARE Senior Prime Nationwide by Jan 1, 2006 and to make it a permanent program. (Health Care Committee)

May 11, 2000
Letter to Rep Michael Bilirakis (R-FL) requesting that he sponsor a floor amendment to the FY 2001 National Defense Authorization Bill to extend eligibility for the new special compensation for severely disabled retirees to servicemembers who were retired under Chapter 61 of Title 10, U.S.C. (Retirement Committee)

May 11, 2000
Letter to all members of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committee urging them to create a national central office within the DVA to oversee benefit inquiries by survivors of service-connected disabled veterans. (Veterans Committee)

May 4, 2000
Letter to Rep Bob Stump (R-Ariz) supporting his legislation to increase the monthly stipend for Montgomery G.I. Bill (MGIB) participants and to allow servicemembers enrolled in the Veterans Educational Assistance Program to convert to the MGIB. (Veterans Committee)

May 3, 2000
Letter to Senator John Warner (R-VA) and all other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee urging them to modify the statutory requirements for eligibility for presidential appointments to the service academies to include children of members of the Reserve Components of the armed forces. (Guard and Reserve Committee).

May 1, 2000
Letter to Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) for their proposed amendment to the FY2001 National Defense Authorization Act to expand the Defense National Mail-Order and TRICARE retail pharmacy program to all Medicare-eligible beneficiaries without an enrollment fee or deductible. (Health Care Committee).

April 26, 2000
Letter to Rep Walter B. Jones Jr. (R-NC) supporting his legislation to provide mid-career enlisted personnel in grades E-5, E-6 and E-7 an additional increase in basic pay effective July 1, 2000. (Personnel, Compensation and Commissaries Committee)

April 25, 2000
Letter to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) requesting that he reconsider the merits of FY2000 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill to address the existing short falls in the FY2000 Defense Budget. (Personnel, Compensation and Commissaries Committee)

April 11, 2000
Letter to Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) and all members of the Senate Budget Committee strongly supporting Sen Johnson's amendment to the FY2001 Congressional Budget Resolution to create a military Health Care Reserve Fund. (Health Care Committee)

April 3, 2000
Letter to Rep Joe Scarborough (R-FL) expressing support for his proposal to include members of the uniformed services and their families in Government-sponsored Long Term Care insurance. Similar letters sent to Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), John Mica (R-FL), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Dan Miller (R-FL), and Thomas Allen (D-ME). (Health Care Committee)

March 24, 2000
Letter to the Honorable Rudy deLeon, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and Dr. Thomas L. Garthwaite, MD, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Health of the Veterans Administration, requesting a status report on DoD's plan to reimburse the DVA for care provided in VA facilities to TRICARE-eligible non-disabled military retirees. (Veterans Committee)

March 23, 2000
Letter to Rep John Spratt (D-SC) supporting his initiative to include an additional $16.3 billion over 10 years to fund TRICARE Senior Prime and make the BRAC pharmacy benefit available to all Medicare-eligible uniformed services beneficiaries. (Health Care Committee)

March 3, 2000
Letters to all members of the Senate and House of Representatives recommending that the payment mechanism for the Montgomery G.I. Bill (MGIB) be pegged to the average cost of a four-year public college or university. (Veterans Committee)