[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18583]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       FUNDING VETERANS PROGRAMS

  Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, the best way to fight this war on terrorism 
is to give the President of the United States the tools he has asked 
for and he needs. Part of that is fully funding support for veterans.
  The Presiding Officer sits on the Veterans' Affairs Committee with 
me. He stood side by side with most of us on funding veterans programs.
  Some of my colleagues haven't. They are happy to send people off to 
war and spend all the money we need but are not so generous when it 
comes to taking care of our men and women when they return. There are 
higher suicide rates, higher head injury rates, higher drug addiction 
rates, and higher unemployment than regular civilians. Yet people in 
this body, especially the tea party in the House of Representatives, 
sometimes don't seem to be able to find the money to spend to help 
veterans.

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