C. W. Bill Young: “This bill is a true, clean national defense bill that provides what the national defense establishment needs to protect…”

“This bill is a true, clean national defense bill that provides what the national defense establishment needs to protect our Nation and to protect our troops. The only partisanship that I have heard in this debate today has come from that side, accusing this side of being partisan or of politicizing or of political gamesmanship. I want to assure the gentleman that there is no politics in this at all. For speakers on the other side to try to create the atmosphere that this is somehow political is just not right. We have gone overboard to make sure over the years that national defense issues were not political and there were no political games being played on them. I want to call attention just one more time to the fact that the only issue of politicization or political gamesmanship is coming from over there. And the fact that they say it does not make it true, and I insist that it is not true. This is a clean national defense appropriations bill.”