[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6717]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 SUPPLEMENTAL PROVIDES CRITICAL FUNDING

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Madam Speaker, we were all outraged by stories of how 
wounded soldiers are being treated at hospitals all over our Nation and 
how many are forced to weave through bureaucratic hurdles to receive 
the benefits they were promised.
  We cannot continue to neglect the needs of our veterans and our 
soldiers wounded in combat. That is why the Democratic emergency 
supplemental bill provides substantial funding increases for equipment 
that will better protect our troops in the field and the necessary 
assistance to meet our obligation to help those who were wounded.
  The Democratic supplemental bill provides $313 million more for new 
vehicles called mine resistant ambush protection vehicles, which will 
resist improvised explosive devices. Our bill also provides critical 
funding for soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and 
traumatic brain injuries.
  Madam Speaker, the Democratic emergency spending bill shows a real 
commitment to both our soldiers still in the field and our troops 
wounded in combat. It deserves our support.

                          ____________________