Bob Filner: “I will be offering a series of amendments to increase funding under Title I for the Veterans Administration. I do this…”

“I will be offering a series of amendments to increase funding under Title I for the Veterans Administration. I do this because I believe this budget is drastically underfunded. From my personal relationships with the chairman, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh), the ranking member, the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Mollohan), I know these gentlemen are strongly in support of our veterans throughout the Nation. They were given certain rules under which they had to operate. They, as the chairman points out, many times added a significant amount of money to the baseline budget. They wish they could add more. I wish I could add more. I have a series of amendments to make that wish come true. Mr. Chairman, we all know that the veterans of this Nation got together early in our budget process and put together what they called an independent budget, a budget that called for about $3 billion more than the baseline for this year. That was a budget created by veterans for veterans. It was a very responsible, professional job.”