Harold Volkmer: “I, too, would like to bring the attention of the House to what I call the mean-spirited, hard-hearted manner in which…”

“I, too, would like to bring the attention of the House to what I call the mean-spirited, hard-hearted manner in which the Committee on Appropriations and the subcommittee has refused to restore the funds that were authorized and appropriated to start outpatient clinics at six outpatient facilities, at six veterans' hospitals throughout this United States. One of those is in my district. That hospital is named on behalf of the greatest President, in my opinion, that has ever served this country. It is the Harry S. Truman Veterans' Hospital in Columbia, MO. That hospital was built in 1972 in order to take care of veterans' medical problems for not only the central and rural part of Missouri, since we also have hospitals in St. Louis and elsewhere, but also for acute care for heart transplants, et cetera, throughout the Midwest. It may be of interest to the Members to know that the number of veterans, especially World War II veterans, have gotten along in years.”