Political Quotes

“I support this measure, but I believe that it does not go far enough. Already, the VA has acknowledged a $2.7 billion problem next fiscal year. Health care for veterans today is being affected by budgetary shortfalls. Although the VA insists that $975 million is sufficient, there also argued as recently as just only 2 days ago that any additional funding was unnecessary. I do not know what we tell the homeless people in this country who would get no assistance if the committee bill would be dropped. We want to know how much money we could have saved by closing down State nursing homes and all the other innovative programs that the VA has been in favor of. If we cannot run a first-class hospital system, then shame on us for not fighting for the defending people of our Nation as much as we fight for other wars for people from foreign lands. I thank my colleagues and urge quick passage supplemental funding.”