Jason Altmire: “R&D grants are critical to their businesses and essential to innovation.”

I urge my colleagues to oppose the motion. I yield back the balance of my time.

Social Security, Medicare, and veterans benefit programs represent an ironclad agreement between citizens and the federal government, a promise that can never be broken.

Absolutely, I would agree. I had a chance to chat with them earlier today, and there is no group that should stand ahead of our Nation's veterans when it comes time to making Federal funding decisions, so I'm glad that they are joining us…

Simply put, veterans and seniors are not the cause of our deficits, so we should not look to them to solve our current crisis.