[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29778]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      OUR VETERANS DESERVE BETTER

  (Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support 
of our Nation's veterans who have fought hard to protect our freedoms 
and preserve our liberties.
  It has been over 140 days, more than 4 months since the House passed 
the MilCon-VA appropriations bill and nearly 8 weeks since the Senate 
passed it. My colleagues on both sides of the aisle joined together to 
craft and pass this important legislation, and the President is 
standing by, waiting to sign it into law.
  Yet it was only last week the Democratic leadership announced that 
they were finally going to take action, not to pass the bill, but, 
instead, to use funding of our veterans as a political tool to help 
ensure passage of a massive increase in spending in the Labor-HHS 
appropriations bill.
  I stand here today in support of our Nation's veterans, in support of 
MilCon-VA appropriations, and staunchly oppose the Democratic 
leadership's attempt to use veterans as human shields to pass this bad 
Labor-HHS bill.
  Our veterans deserve better and Congress must deliver.

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