John Bel Edwards: “if the American people have just heard the last colloquy between my two colleagues, perhaps they wouldn't have…”

“if the American people have just heard the last colloquy between my two colleagues, perhaps they wouldn't have understood that when my two colleagues were in the majority in this House, for 12 years, the last time they passed a Veterans appropriation bill on time wasn't in 2005, 2004, no, not in 2003 either, not in 2002, not in 2001. You have to go back to 1996 to find when they passed an appropriations bill for veterans on time. I can understand why the gentleman wouldn't want the facts to get out to the people who might have just watched him on television have a colloquy that was not factual in explaining the fact that when he was chairman of the Rules Committee, it was 11 years ago when they last passed a Veterans appropriation bill on time. Mr. Speaker, let me also point out they forgot conveniently, perhaps convenient political memory here, they forgot conveniently to explain to the people listening that under the Democratic leadership we have passed $8.1 billion of increase in veterans funding this year, most of that going to veterans health care, the largest in the history of America.”