eligible for the vietnam service medal so where you served whether on land or in sea is not a distinguishing factor there and then the appeals court the u.s. court of appeals for the federal circuit overturned that case and said no we're going to defer to the v.a.'s interpretation of its regulation so that was where things sat for a long time but then advocates continued to change to to challenge that ruling as well as to lobby congress because they basically sought to pass forward congress could pass a law like they just did saying that blue water navy veterans are eligible or the court could overturn its decision so we saw an interesting coming together where we had a court decision from the same court u.s. court of appeals for the federal circuit called procopio where they overruled the earlier decision and haas and so it was a little bit disappointing that congress chose not to act on the blue water navy act basically until a percoco decision came out and told them that they had to do this anyway so for cobia as the law of the land v.a. was going to have to provide these veterans benefits and congress didn't pass this basically it was just for them to say look at us we did so

of obamacare back to federal court. >> over half of of 65 is holdin their breath waiting for a decision in the fifth circuit. >> health care law is in front of three u.s. fifth circuit court of appealss in new orleans. a coalition of democratic led states backed by the house of representativeses are challenging a lower court's ruling to strike the entire law down. at the center of the debate is the affordable care act's individual mandate that requires all-americans to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty. a texas judge deemed the mandate up constitutional. if uphead, tens of millions of americans would lose their health care, protections for people with pre-existing conditions would be eliminated as for coverage for young adults who stayed on their parents plans. president trump vowed to replace obamacare with a less expensive plan. mitch mcconnell says he's not in support of repealing the law but if struck down, the senate would find a way to protect people with pre-existing conditions. >> if that were to go away, we would act quickly to restore it. >> ahead of the hearing, democratic lawmakers held a press anth rely on the affordable care act. >> every family in america is