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Veterans and the military

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Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

Zach Nunn

His campaign says he supported policies that both fund the military adequately and prioritize veterans, active military, military families and mental health, and describes him as a twenty-year combat veteran.

Zach Nunn for Congress

Sarah Trone Garriott

Her campaign says she would expand access to Veterans Affairs services, especially in rural areas, so veterans can reach housing, education and job training without obstacles, and would increase investment in suicide prevention and crisis response.

Sarah for Iowa

Evidence timeline

Where statements meet the record.

  1. official action

    Zach Nunn: Record does not bear out the claim

    His campaign says his first bill to pass the House expanded parental leave for military parents. The first bill he sponsored that passed the House was H.R. 5119, the Protect Small Business and Prevent Illicit Financial Activity Act, on December 12, 2023; it concerns beneficial-ownership reporting, not parental leave. Across the 118th and 119th Congresses he sponsored no bill on parental leave, and none of the nine floor amendments he offered, eight of which were agreed to and one withdrawn, concerned it. He did cosponsor two parental-leave bills. He was one of three cosponsors, and an original cosponsor, of the Reserve Component Parental Leave Parity Act (H.R. 2597, 2023), which would have given parental leave to members of the National Guard and other reserve components; it never passed as a standalone bill, but the same provision was enacted as section 601 of the fiscal year 2024 defense act, which he voted for on December 14, 2023 and which became Public Law 118-31 and created section 711 of title 10. He was the sole cosponsor of the Coast Guard Reserve Parental Leave Parity Act (H.R. 7952, 2024), which also never passed as a standalone bill; section 603 of Public Law 118-159, the fiscal year 2025 defense act, which he voted for on December 11, 2024, extended that same section 711 to the Coast Guard Reserve. Limit: Parental leave for reserve-component families did become law, from bills he cosponsored and acts he voted for, and the National Guard provision his post names was enacted first. What the record does not bear out is that it was his bill or his first bill to pass the House: he sponsored no parental-leave bill in either Congress. The check read the official titles of all 114 bills and resolutions he sponsored, all 874 cosponsorships, his nine floor amendments and the enacted text of both defense acts; a provision inside another act that no title or index names could still be missed.

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