[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 121 (Thursday, July 18, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H7136]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   SUPPORT MILITARY SURVIVING SPOUSES

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, today is legislative day 
5 since House Democrats subverted the Military Surviving Spouses Equity 
Act from being a standalone bill.
  I am grateful that 86 percent of Congress, 371 Members, have 
cosponsored this legislation, who were recruited by determined widows 
in the veterans service organizations.
  As Minority Whip   Steve Scalise noted on the floor last week:
  Here is a bill that can quickly get to the President's desk, and it 
gets included in other pieces of legislation that might come months 
away. But here is a bill where a Member worked in good faith under the 
rules that were created, and it was unfortunate that the rule to bring 
the NDAA bill to the floor turned off the Consensus Calendar 
specifically for that bill, that one bill, which happened to be the 
first bill that met that requirement.
  We should work together, bipartisan, to bring the Military Surviving 
Spouses Equity Act up for a standalone to eliminate the widow's tax.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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