[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 70 (Tuesday, May 1, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H4218]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




FOUR YEARS AGO IT WAS MISSION ACCOMPLISHED; NOW IT IS THE NEVER-ENDING, 
                         EVER-CHANGING MISSION

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Madam Speaker, today we insist, we ask, the President to 
fund the troops by not vetoing this bill. We ask the President to sign 
the bill.
  What has been described as pork is not pork. What it is, is money for 
traumatic brain injury. What it is, is money for veterans who are 
suffering, who have serious problems and serious needs for funding.
  The President has received more money than he even asked for for 
these troops, and we insist and ask him to sign the bill so that the 
troops can get the money that they need. It is going to be on his desk. 
The funds that the President needs will be on his desk. And if the 
President vetoes the bill, it will be the President who denies the 
troops the funds that they need. The President must accept 
responsibility for denying the troops the help that they need, veterans 
the help that they need.
  Madam Speaker, we urge the community to understand the truth about 
the situation, which is that a veto is undermining the troops.

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