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Janice Schakowsky: Fourteen million dollars in an hour, 24/7, over 5 years, $10 billion per month, 4,000 dead Americans, tens of thousands…

On the recordMay 15, 2008
Fourteen million dollars in an hour, 24/7, over 5 years, $10 billion per month, 4,000 dead Americans, tens of thousands of wounded warriors, untold sacrifice of military families, innocent civilians in Iraq killed by the hundreds of thousands, and one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. That is the cost of this war. And do you know, the President says that he has sacrificed, too. Yes. He has sacrificed. He has given up golf. And the President has determined to veto the bill when it gets to him because it includes really a patriot tax on people who make over $1 million. They are going to help to pay for things like an expanded GI Bill for our veterans that come back, a GI Bill that will cost about 5 months in Iraq over 10 years, and yet the President has said that he wants to----
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the costs of the Iraq war and the proposed GI Bill during a House floor debate.

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