Sen. Pat Toomey holds up final approval of burn pit veterans aid package, citing spending concerns
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Sen. Pat Toomey has held up final passage of the PACT ACT, which would reform health care for veterans exposed to burn pits. The senator cites spending concerns.
Perry Chiaramonte is a reporter and producer with Fox News Channel's Investigative Unit. Follow him on Twitter at @perrych.
The bill went back to the House, which recently passed a revised version, but further passage has been delayed after Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., spoke out against the bill saying an additional amendment on provisional spending needed to be added.
"Senator Toomey has blocked it. And now he wants to introduce amendments completely rewriting the way that it's paid for out of some false and very convenient fiscal concern that he never had for the defense budget or for the wars that created these toxic exposure difficulties in the first place," comedian and activist Jon Stewart said in an interview with Fox News.