On the recordOctober 3, 2013
Give us back our committee. Give us back our chairman. Mr. Culberson worked, with all of us on both sides of the aisle, for about 6 months to do a veterans appropriations bill. This is not it. This is a disastrous bill, because this cuts $6.2 billion out of the bill that we passed. This doesn't help veterans. This is game-playing. Our Appropriations Committee is supposed to have 12 bills on this floor. We have none. We don't have a simple one just to pass to keep government open. We've never done this before. Never. No preconditions ever in the history like this. We have a good committee. We have a good chairman. Give us back the process. Give us back an ability to keep this government open. Defeat this bill.
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