John Bel Edwards: “First of all, let me again say the gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh) and the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr.…”

“First of all, let me again say the gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh) and the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Mollohan) did as well as they could for veterans health care funding given the constraints of the budget that have been built in by the tax bill. I do not understand, frankly, the point that this would not be real money. If it is not real money, then it should not have been part of the tax bill that was passed and has been talked about greatly by my Republican colleagues over the last 30 days. If it is real money, which I assume it was when they voted for this in the tax cut bill, then it should be real money, just as real for veterans health care as it could be for tax cuts.”