[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29777]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            VETERANS FUNDING

  (Mr. CARTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTER. Madam Speaker, we've had a lot of talk about the 
veterans, and of course, it's coming up on Veterans Day so we're all 
going to be talking about the veterans.
  We've got an opportunity to do something great. In a bipartisan 
manner, the MilCon-VA appropriations subcommittee passed out a bill 
that does great things for our veterans, as our colleagues have said 
here today.
  But now a good bill, and I am blessed to serve on that subcommittee, 
a good bill is now going to be loaded down with spending pork and we're 
going to ask our soldiers, once again, to lug extra weight on behalf of 
the American citizens, and that's just flat wrong.
  We need to have a clean bill, by itself, so we can fund the veterans. 
We're already a month late on doing this process. It's time to get 
ready, do our job, have a clean, non-loaded-down veterans bill pass out 
of this House. It's important for our soldiers. They deserve this 
blessing.

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