On the recordNovember 10, 2015
As I mentioned yesterday morning, the Republican leader is right about a lot of what he talked about regarding the Military Construction-VA-HUD legislation, but the one thing he just glossed over is that as a result of our holding firm--we as a Democratic caucus holding firm--the veterans now have $2 billion more than they would have, had we followed the Republicans' lead--$2 billion more--allowing 70,000 veterans to be treated who wouldn't have been otherwise. So we are satisfied that this bill is a good bill, and it is a good bill because veterans are getting $2 billion more. There are other reasons, of course. I think the bipartisan support we got for the bill was important, but for our veterans, the most important part was $2 billion extra. ____________________
