Bill Delahunt: “If I could talk about the immediate future for one moment to follow up, because I think you make a prescient point.…”

“If I could talk about the immediate future for one moment to follow up, because I think you make a prescient point. While we are standing here today, there was a report that I listened to that indicated that the chairman of the Defense Appropriations Committee, a highly respected and regarded Member of this House, Chairman Bill Young from Florida, and the senior Democrat, the ranking member whom you alluded to earlier, John Murtha, again, highly regarded, well-respected, served his country in Vietnam, a senior Democrat, on the Defense Appropriations bill that their staffs are preparing, already an additional $100 billion in that supplemental budget to be put to this House, to this Congress, for approval in the not-too-distant future. That is an additional $100 billion that will be utilized in Iraq, not here in America.”