[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15754]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      VETERANS HEALTH CARE FUNDING

  (Mr. BUYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BUYER. Mr. Speaker, I would say that my good friend from Texas's 
1-minute is very unfortunate because, Chet, you and I are working 
together. We are working with your colleague, Chairman Walsh, to find 
the right number. And so to try to say that, gee, there is a bogeyman, 
there is a bad person here, that is false. What we are looking for, 
Chet, is to get the right number.


                Announcement By the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Simpson). The Chair would advise Members 
that they should address their remarks to the Chair and not to other 
Members either in the second person or by given name.
  Mr. BUYER. I can address the Chair, but I think we know who we are 
talking to.
  I am hopeful, Mr. Speaker, that the gentleman who just spoke will be 
very careful, because we are trying to work together to get the right 
number. I think it is an embarrassing moment. When we ask the 
administration for the number, they testify to a number, and then we 
find that it is not right potentially? We are trying to get the number 
right and to make sure that veterans are served properly on a 
bipartisan basis. Please, let us not erode that.

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