Diane Watson: “I want to know how that Committee on Rules slipped these provisions in a clean and clear bill to support our fighting…”

“I want to know how that Committee on Rules slipped these provisions in a clean and clear bill to support our fighting forces. That bill would have gone off this floor in a snap. And so I am so disappointed that you are trying to Houdini me into telling me an answer that relates to something that happened way in the past. I am talking about the bill in front of us that came out of the Committee on Appropriations. And I want to thank the people for acting with integrity and respect. And I might close in saying this, to the people who represent America, I was sent here to represent a constituency of Americans. I am going to do that job. I am not going to play games with it. I am not going to sell them out, not you when you get 65 and older, not our children, not our grandchildren. I will fight if it takes me the rest of this weekend into Memorial Day because I believe that we have said to the people of America, you entrust us. You give us your trust, and you pay into Social Security. I want it there when you get ready to retire. I want you to be able to buy your pharmaceuticals that will help you live. I want to be able to say to our children, we are not mortgaging your future. I want to let you know we are not going to play games with the trust you put in us. So let us do away with this bill.”