Legislation Has Comic Effect

Members of Congress will take publicity for legislation they have sponsored wherever they can get it. So Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Larry Craig, R-Idaho, is tickled that Garry Trudeau, creator of the comic strip Doonesbury, has chosen recently to highlight legislation passed last year that offers compensation of $25,000 to $100,000 to help traumatically injured military service members. In a series of recent strips, Doonesbury character B.D. agonizes over whether to accept $80,000 in such benefits. (Here's one example.)