Senate OKs enhanced benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits, while Utah’s Lee and Romney vote ‘nay’

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said Congress should be supporting veterans harmed by toxic exposure, but the bill’s scope and cost were “astronomical and unjustified.”

(Simon Klingert | AP) An Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 28, 2011.