[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16603]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, last week, President Obama vetoed the 
National Defense Authorization Act, which sets funding levels for our 
military operations.
  The bipartisan NDAA contains a number of positive components. The 
bill funds our troops' pay increases, health care and retirement 
benefits. It funds the ongoing effort to defeat ISIS and our effort to 
Afghanistan. This measure blocks the President's plan to close 
Guantanamo Bay, which would move the terrorists here to U.S. prisons if 
it was shut down. And it continues funding for the A-10, a very 
important close air support aircraft so effective that it is leading 
the fight against ISIS.
  This isn't one of the controversial issues we debate here. It is 
about the basic responsibility of funding our military while our Armed 
Forces are engaged overseas.
  With ISIS, Syria, Iran, South China Sea, Ukraine, Afghanistan, and 
also our allies like Israel watching and wondering what we are doing 
here, we need to do a lot better than that. We need to override the 
President's veto.

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