Dan Burton: “occasionally things happen when you're in Congress that make you so angry that you can't hardly stand it. I got a call…”

“occasionally things happen when you're in Congress that make you so angry that you can't hardly stand it. I got a call this past week, Mr. Speaker, from a friend of mine from my childhood. And her brother is a veteran who was in the veterans hospital, and he was assigned to a community residential care program. That's where they put one of these veterans into a home in a neighborhood with other veterans, and they're supposed to be cared for. She told me that the place where he was being kept was not clean and that the room he was in had a window that was sealed shut. He took oxygen, and there were no signs or anything that dealt with the oxygen that he was taking. A dog in the house came into his room and chewed through his oxygen tube. He had to keep his door shut, so it virtually made him a prisoner in this house. There were four veterans in this house. And the attitude of the person who ran this home was not anything that you would call conducive to good care.”