Deborah Koff Ross: “I thank the President for going to Iraq. He was there, I think it was his third trip, he was there for a few hours. I…”

“I thank the President for going to Iraq. He was there, I think it was his third trip, he was there for a few hours. I spent a day in Iraq. You have been several times. I think it is important that we go and we let our soldiers know we support them and make sure some of this money over there is being spent on them and providing them the best equipment that money can buy. They deserve nothing less. But the type of folks that I think the President needs to spend a lot more time listening to are the type of Members of Congress that have served in the military, like Patrick Murphy from Pennsylvania. Patrick, not too long ago, was known as Captain Murphy and spent not a few hours in Iraq, but a few months in Iraq, nearly a year. Patrick Murphy from Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District, a fellow Blue Dog member who helped write H.R. 97, which is a bill endorsed by the Blue Dog Coalition to provide for Operation Iraqi Freedom cost accountability to ensure that this $16 million an hour of your tax money, Mr. Speaker, which is going to Iraq, is being spent on our soldiers.”