C. W. Bill Young: “Mr. Speaker, I know there is a little confusion here today about which bill we are considering. We are considering…”

“Mr. Speaker, I know there is a little confusion here today about which bill we are considering. We are considering actually a continuing resolution, and we are not continuing the several bills that the gentleman who just spoke had referred to, but he made a couple of comments that I think we cannot allow to go unchallenged. First, he talked about veterans health care. What our colleagues on both sides of the aisle ought to realize is that in the bill that we presented for veterans health care, we increased the President's budget request for veterans health care by $1.7 billion. We increased veterans health care over the President's budget, contrary to what the gentleman in the well had just said. Then he talked about cuts in salaries. No salaries will be cut by the language in the next bill that we consider, nor this bill, and this bill does not cut anybody's salary. The CR does not cut anything. The next bill does not cut anybody's salaries, except Members of Congress.”