Joe Cunningham: “reclaiming what little time I have left, the gentlewoman says that pay raises would not be affected, but, if it is an…”

“reclaiming what little time I have left, the gentlewoman says that pay raises would not be affected, but, if it is an across-the-board, there is one that we have bipartisan support in trying to fix back the High-One problem that we have. In that account we either affect the COLA, Elk Hills, or High One. Which will it be? If we do a 3-percent cut, we either are going to cut the COLA of military retirees or we are going to affect those few people that have decided to get out recently. I take a look at what our problems are right now across. We have got ships that are not being repaired. The gentlewoman in support of the base closures, we cannot give the dollars for the base closures to reap the benefit of the dollars back to DOD, because we do not have the dollars. That would be hurt. I rise in opposition to the amendment.”