{"id":1415,"date":"2024-05-25T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2024-05-25T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T12:52:20","slug":"reschenthaler-miller-introduce-legislation-to-support-american-citizens-fighting-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/2024\/05\/25\/reschenthaler-miller-introduce-legislation-to-support-american-citizens-fighting-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Reschenthaler, Miller Introduce Legislation to Support American Citizens Fighting in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reschenthaler.house.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/protecting_americans_in_the_idf_act.pdf\">https:\/\/reschenthaler.house.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/protecting_americans_in_the_idf_act.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C. <\/strong>\u2013Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) and U.S. Representative Max Miller (R-OH) introduced H.R. 8445, which would extend the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) and Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) to American citizens serving in the Israel Defense Forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOver 20,000 American citizens are currently defending Israel from Hamas terrorists, risking their lives for the betterment of our ally,\u201d <strong>said Reschenthaler. <\/strong>\u201cThis legislation will ensure we do everything possible to support these heroes who are standing with Israel, fighting for freedom, and combating terrorism in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs our closest ally in the Middle East continues to defend itself against terror, many brave Americans have decided to lend a hand,\u201d <strong>said Miller.<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019m proud that this legislation extends important protections to those Americans who chose to risk their lives in the fight against terror.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SCRA provides members on active-duty status with financial management safeguards such as rental agreements, security deposits, evictions, installment contracts, credit card interest rates, mortgages, civil judicial proceedings, and income tax payments, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The USERRA prohibits employment discrimination based on an individual\u2019s prior service in the uniformed services, current service in the uniformed services, or intent to join the uniformed services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/reschenthaler.house.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/protecting_americans_in_the_idf_act.pdf WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) and U.S. Representative Max Miller (R-OH) introduced H.R. 8445, which would extend the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) and Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}