สไลด์โชว์ U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth to sponsor bill against 'gaming' of veterans disability benefits

[b]Illinois congresswoman ripped government contractor's dubious claim in House hearing in June[/b] [b]By[/b] Katherine Skiba, Chicago Tribune reporter [url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-duckworth-disability-bill-1113-20131113,0,1468072.story] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-duckworth-disability-bill-1113-20131113,0,1468072.story[/url] WASHINGTON— — U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth, in a follow-up to a dramatic House hearing last summer in which she accused a government contractor of "gaming" the system, plans to co-sponsor a bill Thursday to tighten the rules on who can receive veterans disability benefits and contract set-asides. The first-term Illinois Democrat, who lost both her legs and badly injured an arm in the Iraq war, ripped into the contractor during the June hearing because he claimed a service-related disability after a football injury at the U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School. U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson, Getty Images / November 5, 2013)