Steve Lynch: “I do want to encourage my colleagues across the aisle to remember the history here. It was not long ago that the…”

“I do want to encourage my colleagues across the aisle to remember the history here. It was not long ago that the previous VA Secretary, Mr. Nicholson, came before this House and complained that the VA was $1.1 billion in the red. That was under a House Leadership that was Republican, and that left short many of the needs of our veterans. It was when the Democrats in January took over that we pushed this largest single appropriations bill in the history of the VA to address all of those unmet needs, and I just asked my colleagues across the aisle to work with us. No one is complaining here today about the content of that bill or the process that brought it to this floor. Many of the ideas in that bill are part and parcel of what my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would hope for. We just need to work together today to get this bill to the floor, get it done, and get it to the President for his signature.”