[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 22]
[House]
[Page 30727]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           FUND OUR VETERANS

  (Mrs. DRAKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. DRAKE. Mr. Speaker, this is day 40. That is 40 days so far that 
our veterans have not had the use of the increased funding for their 
benefits and health care. That is $18.5 million a day not able to be 
used.
  One thing that our veterans asked for is that we pass our bill by 
October 1. This work has been done for months.
  With Veterans Day quickly approaching, the Democratic leadership put 
our veterans aside to consider billions in bloated domestic spending 
instead of sending a clean veterans bill to the floor.
  I'm standing with our veterans, and I call on all Americans to 
contact their Representatives to tell the Democrat leadership to send a 
clean veterans appropriation bill to the President now.

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