C. W. Bill Young: “Mr. Speaker, this is the conference report on the supplemental to pay for our military forces, equipment, their…”

“Mr. Speaker, this is the conference report on the supplemental to pay for our military forces, equipment, their salaries, and their medical care. A speaker who just left the well a few minutes ago said that nobody knows where the money is going, and I want to tell my colleagues that we do know where it is going. It is going to take me a little bit more time than I had anticipated using, but let me tell my colleagues this: $65 billion of this money goes to the American troops, the American forces in Afghanistan and in Iraq. I will take the time to provide details of that funding: Military personnel expenses: $17,800,000; The operation and maintenance for our services involved in Iraq and Afghanistan, $39,231,000; for procurement for the Army, for missiles, and WTCV for the Army, other procurement Army, aircraft procurement Army and Navy, other procurement Navy, procurement for the Marine Corps, Air Force procurement defense-wide $5,534,000. These pages that I will provide for the record are full of details on spending in this bill. And for someone to stand here and say no one knows where the money is going, is just not accurate. I really do not mind the political comments that are made here, but do not distort the facts. We know where this money is going. Do we know where every penny is going? No. And for some of the programs that my colleagues support, we do not know where all that money is going, either.”