Norman D. Dicks: “The Secretary of Defense and the comptroller have made it very clear that money for our troops in the field in…”

“The Secretary of Defense and the comptroller have made it very clear that money for our troops in the field in Afghanistan and Iraq will start running out by August 7. So we have a responsibility to the men and women who are serving this country in harm's way--and we've seen the horrific injuries that these people have suffered--to make certain that they have the resources to conduct this operation until something different is the policy of the United States. I just hope that we can have a bipartisan vote here today of people who understand their responsibility and recognize that we've got to provide the funding. If we don't get the funding done today, Mr. Hoyer has already said we're not going home. We're going to stay here until we get this done. So I think this is a responsibility of this Congress. We have had months to work on this thing. And it's now time to get the job done. I hope that we can have bipartisan support on both sides of the aisle for this supplemental. It isn't the supplemental that I wanted. I had I think a much better bill. But the reality is time has run out. We've got to do it now.”