It also would provide relief from applying certain reductioninforce (RIF) provisions that could result in an even more unbalanced workforce than exists today and a consequent detrimental impact on our ability to serve the Congress.
It would keep you from having to apply reductioninforce provisions
It doesn't diminish the credit Gore deserves for volunteering to participate in a war that he personally opposed, and that nearly all of his Harvard classmates did their utmost to avoid.