[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29774]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   SEND MILCON-VA TO PRESIDENT'S DESK

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, if my grandmother were standing here 
today, she would say your actions are speaking so loudly I cannot hear 
one single word you are saying. And she would be saying that about the 
mistreatment of our veterans by this majority.
  It has been over 140 days since the House passed the MilCon-VA 
approps bill and 8 weeks since the slow-moving Senate passed it. The 
bill has strong bipartisan support and the President has poised his pen 
ready to sign that bill.
  Well, now the Democrats have decided they are going to delay it. They 
are going to play politics with it. They are going to pile on other 
things around it. And they are doing it to use it as a political tool. 
How very, very sad we find this situation.
  We need to make certain that a political tool is not made of our 
veterans and our men and women in uniform. They have sacrificed so much 
for this country. It is imperative that we move the bill forward as a 
stand-alone bill. As we go into Veterans Day, let's honor those who 
served by the actions they see us take.

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