[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 7443-7444]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      REPUBLICANS ARE UNWILLING TO MEET THE COMMITMENT TO VETERANS

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, by attacking John Kerry's war record this 
morning, the Republicans would revive the controversy of the war in 
Vietnam, yet they are unwilling to meet the commitment to the veterans 
of that war who are still waiting for the benefits they were promised. 
They will attack veterans of the war, and they will not help the 
veterans of the war in the way we promised when they went to war.

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  They have not yet repealed the disabled veterans tax. They are 
supporting $1 billion less than we need to provide health care. The 
President is proposing to double the prescription drug cost for our 
veterans. And yet they have the temerity to attack a distinguished 
veteran of that war, one who has also voted to meet the commitments to 
the veterans of that war and the veterans who are coming home today. 
But they are not willing to pay that bill, they are just willing to 
attack.

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