The U.S. Senate approved a veterans employment bill Thursday that includes tax credits of nearly 10 thousand dollars for a company to hire a disabled veteran.

The Senate approved 95 to 0 in a rare bipartisan vote. The bill was actually carved out of President Obama’s bigger jobs package, and would also provide new money to retrain older unemployed veterans.

Ohio Senate Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown was one of the sponsors of the bill, and spoke with WKSU’s M.L. Schultze about it and the continued deployment of U.S. troops – including the Ohio National Guard --  overseas.