Haley Stevens: “This is money for this year--not only this year, but within the next 8 weeks it has to be to the armed services. I say…”

“This is money for this year--not only this year, but within the next 8 weeks it has to be to the armed services. I say to my friend, very respectfully, when the time comes, I am going to have to move to table this amendment, although I hate to do it because I agree with it in many ways. But it is not the only thing coming at us. Every one of these, like another straw on the camel's back, will take more time to deal with in conference with the House and with the President, and meanwhile we don't get the money out there for the troops. I hope the Senate will stay with us. Let's restrict this bill to the emergencies related to the war effort, and the homeland security money in here is related to the war effort. It is nuclear security, it is a transfer of treasury for homeland security. One of the items is a smallpox amendment which is already in the bill. Those moneys can and will be spent before September 30 of this year. They must be. We don't have an extension on them. They are all money to be spent this year. This money the Senator seeks is money that could be spent over the next 2, 3 years.”