• Sustain defense budget of at least 4% of GDP to fund both people and weapons needs
• Increase active duty, G/R force sizes (end strength) to match mission
• Restore full military pay comparability with private sector (2.9% gap remains)
• Upgrade G/R retirement/compensation to reflect “operational reserve” demands
• Strengthen financial, legal, reemployment protections for mobilized G/R force
• Protect funding for commissary, dependent schools and other military benefits
• Raise relocation payments to cover members’ costs for government-directed moves
• Protect members against travel credit card interest/credit risks for late Government payments
• Upgrade GI Bill benefits to cover 4-year public college costs
• Restore equitable G/R GI Bill benefits

Health Care Issues

• Fully fund the Defense Health Program
• Ensure proper DoD and VA care for/outreach to wounded warriors and families
• Protect against benefit cuts/avoid disproportional cost-shifting to beneficiaries
• Upgrade TRICARE to attract more providers and improve beneficiary access
• Fix Medicare/TRICARE payment rate formula to promote provider participation
• Ensure a broad TRICARE pharmacy formulary
• Improve seamless transition between the Defense and VA health care/benefits systems
• Provide full funding for veterans enrolled in the VA health care system
• Authorize option to subsidize retention of reservists' civilian family health insurance

Retirement/Survivor Issues

• Preserve full-inflation cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs)
• Eliminate the Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) deduction from SBP
• Authorize full concurrent receipt of military retired pay and VA disability compensation
• Restore VA survivor annuities for qualifying widows who remarry after age 55
• Oppose military benefit changes that are inconsistent with service career sacrifices
• Expand permanent ID card eligibility for elderly / disabled beneficiaries
• Reform the Uniformed Services Former Spouse Protection Act (USFSPA)
• Authorize survivors to retain the deceased sponsor’s full final-month retired pay
• Implement a more equitable military disability retirement system

Veterans, Family, Other Issues

• Improve quality, efficiency, and timeliness of VA claims-processing system
• Authorize pre-tax payment of health, dental and long-term care premiums
• Authorize currently serving families to use pre-tax health/dependent care programs
• Provide incentives for employers/government contractors to hire military spouses
• Authorize compensation/support for family member caregivers of severely injured
• Win congressional approval of Flag anti-desecration amendment
• Reduce Social Security penalties for certain civil service and state retirees/survivors
• Prevent disproportional Social Security/Medicare penalties for any population segment