[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29779]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             MAKING HISTORIC INVESTMENT IN OUR VETERAN CARE

  (Mrs. BOYDA of Kansas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. BOYDA of Kansas. Madam Speaker, veterans are a number one issue 
in the State of Kansas. We found it just appalling how shameful the 
lack of funding for our veterans had become.
  When I came to this Congress, I can't tell you how pleased I was that 
we put $5.2 billion of emergency spending into our veterans funding, 
and a lot of that came right into the good hospitals of Kansas. That 
$5.2 billion of emergency funding was also called ``pork.'' How 
somebody could call funding our veterans ``pork'' was just beyond me.
  Today, we are making a historic investment in our veteran care. I am 
hoping that we can come together across the aisle in a bipartisan 
manner and stand up for our veterans and insist that our President sign 
this bill and start to take care of our veterans as they should have 
been.

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