Veterans: three cost-of-living increases
What they say
Her plan says she championed legislation that gave veterans three cost-of-living increases.
“In Congress, I served on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee and was instrumental in passing the PACT Act–the largest expansion of veterans’ benefits in our lifetime. I also introduced and passed the Gold Star Families Act to provide tax relief for Gold Star families and championed legislation to provide three cost of living increases to veterans.”
What the record shows ·
She sponsored four Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Acts across the 116th and 117th Congresses, and three became law: H.R. 1200 as Public Law 116-58 on September 26, 2019, H.R. 6168 as Public Law 116-178 on October 20, 2020, and H.R. 7846 as Public Law 117-191 on October 10, 2022. The fourth, H.R. 3909 of 2021, was referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and went no further.
Limit: The number in the claim is the number in the record: three of her four cost-of-living bills became law. The check reads the official titles and action histories of all 45 bills and resolutions she sponsored in the 116th and 117th Congresses. What a given increase was worth to any veteran is set by the rate the act adopts and is not assessed here, and she left office on January 3, 2023, so nothing after that date is hers. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.