Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro) for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 9494, a fundamentally flawed attempt by the Republican leadership to save face for their inability to govern and a bill which lacks $12 billion in critical funding for the Veterans Health Administration. Leaving out this critical funding for veterans' healthcare is the latest in a cynical political game playing that we have seen in this Congress. It is blatant, and I know my stating this fact will cause some howling complaints on the other side, just as it did last night when the House approved almost $3 billion in funding for the Veterans Benefit Administration. This was done with a lot of misinformation and mudslinging about how this is all the fault of the Biden-Harris administration rather than recognition that this is the bill coming due for the true cost of war and what we owe to veterans, which we finally started paying with the Honoring our PACT Act. This is not a last-minute request, and it is certainly not grounded in mismanagement, despite my Republican colleagues making this accusation. This $12 billion shortfall is a direct result of President Biden and the VA's rapid implementation of the Honoring our PACT Act, which I got signed into law in 2022.…”